Bill Hall Tea Quotations

Traditionally, around the world, tea is planted on hillsides. We're flat as a pancake, but we have sandy soil and ditches next to each field so the water drains away. The plants have been here in South Carolina for over 100 years and they're happy here.

Bigelow could get it in every supermarket in America, but the problem is we have to have enough to provide. We don't want to get into a situation where the supermarkets are saying send us more tea and we say we haven't got it.

The older the tea, the more harsh and bitter it becomes. And imported teas can be many, many months old before the consumer gets a chance to buy it off the shelf, ... Our advantage is that we can get our tea from the field to the customer within a month.