Great Scot! Highlands grows unlikely winner tea

Amulree, United Kingdom

TAM O'Braan has had several lives. Having been a soldier, an agronomist and an entrepreneur, he now grows tea in the foothills of the Scottish Highlands, and is the envy of those who once called him crazy.

Four years since he began growing tea at Dalreoch, a former sheep farm close to the small Scottish village of Amulree, the Irishman saw his tea crowned a winner at the Salon de The awards in Paris last year.

Now Mr O'Braan sells his tea in luxury stores such as Mariage Freres in Paris where it goes for 78 euros (S$122) for 20 grams and London's Fortnum & Mason, where it brings £40 (S$81) …