Tea has been our favourite companion for quiet me-times and catch-ups with friends and family for decades. But as our awareness of the impact of our shopping habits on the rest of the world and on the environment grew, we could see that there was a problem with our cuppas.

We could enjoy a high-quality tea, but at the cost of a long and opaque supply chain. Or there were teas that we could not get excited about drinking, even though they collected all the fair trade and sustainability stamps.

The more we researched the tea industry, how the tea is plucked, processed and sold, the more we realised how heavily colonialism had shaped it in India (and still does!) and how ungrateful it is towards its workforce.

We didn’t want to be part of an exploitative system. So we decided that if we could find growers who would respect their workforce as much as they do their land, and who would grow a variety of outstanding teas, then we would have a chance to make a difference.

We found them. We met them, we tasted their teas and visited their factories. Everything was a ‘wow’ factor.

We were done compromising.

Darvaza Teas was born.