OVER 100 SEASONAL TEAS
IN THE 2006 PORTFOLIO

David Gray and Brian Seddon survey hundreds of artisan teas each year travelling to some of the remotest areas in China and elsewhere. The G&S business promotes only those which are exceptional for their seasonal freshness, complexity of flavour and originality. So whether tasting oolongs at Anxi, grading Fuliang Blacks, sourcing PQM Dragon Well, the earliest Sechibaru sencha, or sourcing aged Xishuangbanna pu'ers and the many fragrant leaf-bud green teas at Yellow Mountain, only the best of the year's production will make it to the G&S portfolio of teas.

SEASONAL TEAS OF ORIGIN
freshness, origin and seasonality

G&S has established its business as a quality supplier of all classes of tea; emphasizing freshness, origin and seasonality. Every season our procurement policy is to acquire a listing of teas that is largely unobtainable. Our present portfolio consists of teas that are: (i) seasonally selected, (ii) artisan often handmade, low production, (iii) sourced from gardens of known origin. Tea gardens visited by Gray & Seddon which can guarantee high standards of garden management and quality manufacturing, (iv) characteristic of origin and defined by their superior quality and organolepticity. Many of these attributes can only be satisfied by the smaller, family-run tea producers. People who know their region's traditional tea well and can skilfully make them to high standards. G&S associate gardens and suppliers are also acutely aware of the diminishing returns associated with the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. That is why the Gray & Seddon tea listings originate from gardens that practice green cultivation as a way of life.

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Sencha &
Gyokuro Specialist
BRIAN SEDDON is a Chemist with a PhD (chemical sensors), Edinburgh University, Scotland. He acquired an interest in tea chemistry in the mid 1990s, reviewing the quality and processing conditions influential to green and oolong tea manufacture. He has worked and lived in China and Japan, visiting many of the most highly acclaimed tea-growing regions over the past years for Gray & Seddon. Since 2000 he has researched and written on many aspects of the steamed manufactured green teas of Kyushu island. The business now relying on his expertise with regional sencha and the traditional gyokuro teas for its seasonal listings. He is also responsible for publishing the company's monthly newsletter "The Tea Business". A free newsletter for G&S clients devoted to tea industry issues. His main responsibility is the dissemination of Gray & Seddon messages concerning the seasonal nature of origin teas and the relationship between their quality and market price. For more information on Japanese tea production, G&S associate companies, or Gray & Seddon activities in the UK and EU, e-mail him at: Brian Seddon