Puerh tea from Yunnan in China was on sale in Harrod’s this week for a mere £15,000 for a 375g cake.
This tea was compressed into its dense hard round cake from fresh leaves collected in the wild in Yunnan during the 1950s. Since then the cake has been rested and matured like a very excellent wine; the only tea on the planet that requires maturing! And only now, a half decade later, is the tea considered in prime state for brewing.
Hence the sale. Rare. On offer for a limited period only. Ruby red in its liquid form. As gold in its cost.
A good deal if you consider you only need a 5g chunk of it in 200 mls of water to make a cuppa. Being mindful that the chunk is reusable up to 20 times–if you are into recycling.
At worst you get 75 cups of puerh tea for £15,000. At best 20 times that. And, what’s not to love about that? So, of course, we had to visit and see it for ourselves.
Then, deep in an Egyptian crypt-like tomb of escalators going down and down in the Fayed-owned Harrod's we came upon Dodi and Diana, smiling widely at each other’s photographs, on into perpetuity. Spinning a shimmery halo around them was the ring Dodi bought Diana. On daddy’s pin. Locked in a Perspex prison.
A typical medallion man gift: big, glittery, tasteless. I wonder what Diana actually thought of it.
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| Dodi's ring to Diana in a perspex prism |
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| £15,000 for 375g of Puerh tea |
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