Glen Caladh Farm

Glen Caladh Tea is a single estate loose leaf black tea, no blending, no plastics, no pesticides, high antioxidant levels and a unique flavour profile.

The tea farm has a polytunnel nursery bringing on the younger tea plants and the main outdoor plantation within a deer fence. Our tea plants are being moved outside to survive the full brunt of the Scottish climate. We feel the flavour has to be more authentic this way!

We chose the Cowal Peninsula in Argyll to grow this tea plantation. At Caladh soil acidity, rainfall and climate mimic conditions of high grown tea regions, famed for producing the worlds best teas.

When it comes to the tea plant; Camellia sinensis, different processing methods result in different teas, and black tea, white tea, oolongs and puer teas are all made with leaves from the same plant.

The taste of tea is largely influenced by the soil and atmospheric conditions in which it is grown, like wine, or whisky.

We are selectively propagating tea from the plants that most like it here.

The tea leaf has the potential to offer flavours and characteristics that we don’t know are possible until we search for them in our growing and processing. Loose leaf teas, withered and rolled with attention to the process can create such a variety from this one incredible plant.

For us, camelia sinensis, a crop so influenced by it’s natural surroundings as to create a unique taste that celebrates it’s Scottish provenance is of huge appeal.