Scottish hoaxers are in on the great tea swindle – but what about Meghan's and Fergie's brews? JAN MOIR
What is it about tea that brings out the worst in people? Not those who drink it. Those who sell it.
In Scotland, the celebrated Wee Tea Plantation Company has turned out to be a massive scam, with cheap tea imported from abroad then passed off as tea lovingly grown in a field in Perthshire, and sold off at 100 times the cost to grand hotels such as Gleneagles, the Balmoral in Edinburgh and the Dorchester in London. Ten years ago there was a launch in New York attended by then First Minister and actor Alan Cumming.
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