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He’s holding Nelson’s ‘bachelor teapot’, just big enough for one person’s cuppa and possibly used by the hero at sea Newby has more than 200 varieties By Adrian Lee in its range and the tea is una- The drinking habits of historical figures shamedly expensive. The company FTER dedicating more owner is also scathing about the than half a century of his cheap stuff that the majority of us life to the nation’s favour- such as Lord Nelson will finally be drink, mainly in teabag form. ite beverage Nirmal Sethia “If you can’t afford a good tea, has surely earned the title you can’t have a good tea,” he says Mister Tea. He has made bluntly. The finest teas in the Ahis fortune selling the leaf and is revealed when one of the world’s greatest world, such as Da Hong Pao from now on a one-man mission to teach the Wuyi mountains in China, can Britons how to really appreciate fetch more than £1.5million a kilo. the cuppa. Sethia laments the “rubbish tea” For good measure the 75-year- teaware collections goes on public display now widely sold, claiming it’s often old tycoon has the world’s fore- the lowest quality sweepings. most collection of tea parapherna- the support of his father he founded slice of Newby profits is donated to erations. Britons consume 165 mil- “Often when tea is bad they put lia, valued at £150million, started his first company, Sethia Tea charity projects in Chitra’s mem- lion cups of tea a day but a sure some fragrance into it, such as jas- in honour of his late wife Chitra. Estates. ory but Sethia also wanted a way of raising the tycoon’s temper- mine or Earl Grey. Also, people Normally hidden away in a private By then tea had become an memorial to the role tea played in ature to boiling point is our habit don’t know the difference between vault, the treasure trove is to go on obsession and he bought a planta- their lives. of adding milk – the custom of 98 tea and infusions – camomile is not public display here next year, giv- tion in the north-east Indian state “She was my rock, always there per cent of British tea drinkers. tea; peppermint is not tea.” ing a unique insight into the drink- of Assam, where he developed his to stop me from falling,” he says of As much as 95 per cent of the ing habits of some famous figures. palate. “I used to sleep on the his wife of 40 years. “I could not taste of cheap tea is lost in transit There’s Horatio Nelson’s teapot, a veranda of one of the buildings in build the Taj Mahal for her so I due to poor storage and packaging service owned by a French king, a the tea garden and drink tea,” started my collection in her name. methods, claims the tycoon, whose set from the Churchill family and Sethia recalls. “I taught myself Many a time she made comments E insists: “Whatever tea company produces 600,000kg of pieces from ancient China. about the different characteristics about my relationship with tea.” you drink you shouldn’t tea a year. “The biggest enemies of Calcutta-born Sethia is the and subtleties in flavour. I seemed The impressive Chitra Collection add anything to it. Tea fine tea are heat, exposure to light, founder and owner of London- to have a gift for tasting tea. now boasts more than 1,700 items Hshouldn’t have sugar, or milk or humidity and pollution.” based tea company Newby, which “I was able to distinguish teas including works by Tiffany and anything else. The subtle flavours Although born in India, the includes Vladimir Putin among its from different parts of India and Fabergé. Some have just gone on should be obvious. If you add milk father of three considers London elite customers. beyond, something that impressed display in Kazakhstan and will be you destroy the flavour.” his home and is a big admirer of “Tea is not just a drink, it’s a the buyers I met.” unveiled in the UK next year. Then there’s his advice on how another great tea drinker, Marga- 5,000-year-old culture,” says Sethia, Later he expanded into property The jewel in the crown is the to drink fine tea – above all, slowly. ret Thatcher. The former prime explaining a fascination which and banking but tea was always Nelson silver teapot, engraved with “You don’t slurp tea, you sip it.