Simply Darjeeling!

Our parent company, Teekampagne, and its founder, Guenter Faltin, were among the three companies honored at the ceremony for the Deutscher Gruenderpreis 2009, the most important award for outstanding entrepreneurs in Germany. Winners received their awards in Berlin, at a ceremony attended by Commerce Secretary Guttenberg and many other prominent figures from business and politics. Both “stern” magazine and German public TV channel ZDF have been carrying reports on the nominees and prize winners.

Faltin, a professor of entrepreneurship at the Free University of Berlin, started Teekampagne 25 years ago, to demonstrate that his ideas could succeed in the marketplace. Teekampagne sells only one kind of tea, Darjeeling, in large packages and by mail order, at tremendous savings to the consumer. Its tea is 100% Darjeeling, guaranteed by the official Seal of Purity from the Tea Board of India; it is subject to an extraordinary quality assurance protocol (among other things, it is tested for hundreds of herbicides and pesticides, with the results printed on each package, and it is traceable to its origins). Teekampagne also funds a reforestation project in Darjeeling, carried out locally by the World Wide Fund for Nature. A model company not only for its entrepreneurial idea but also for its ecological leadership, Teekampagne has a loyal following in Europe, where it sells about 400 tons of tea a year.

Faltin has been a business angel for a variety of successful startups as well as a widely read author and consultant on entrepreneurship. His latest book, Kopf schlaegt Kapital (“Brain Beats Capital”) is among the best-selling business books in Germany this year.

Buy 4 x 250g (2008: First Flush, Second Flush, Ging Garden Tea, Green Tea) and get an attractive gift box for free!

Try samples of Darjeeling Green Tea and Selected Tea.  One sample (15g) makes two large pots of tea!

To order, please go to our secure online store at https://shop.bostonteacampaign.com .

Dear Friends of Pure Darjeeling Tea:

We are closing out our line of gourmet teabags this summer and will concentrate on loose teas in the future.  While supplies last, therefore, we will have a clearance special on our organic, pure Darjeeling tea bags: $ 15.00 for a box of 100.  Please go to our secure online shop at https://shop.bostonteacampaign.com

Happy sipping!
— Your Boston Tea Campaign, Inc.

We are offering a February Special: our 2007 Pussimbing First Flush (in 250g packages), available while supplies last.  Please go to our secure online shop at https://shop.bostonteacampaign.com.

Pussimbing lies at one of the highest tea-growing altitudes in Darjeeling, between 4,500 to 6,000 feet above sea level and just underneath the famous “Tiger Hill,” known for its spectacular sunrise views of distant mountains, including the top of Mt. Everest. The steep hillsides of Pussimbing Tea Garden are almost constantly covered by fog; the tea leaves grown here have a distinct aroma reminiscent of citrus fruit. First Flush Pussimbing is known for its long, twisted leaves that turn a luminescent green when the tea is brewed. Since 1997, Pussimbing Tea Garden has been certified by the Swiss Institute for Market Ecology for bio-organic production; in 2006, it also received the seal of Naturland, a German authority that certifies organic and fairly traded products.

“A teacupful of medicine? Green tea has held a long-standing place in traditional Asian medicine. Scientific research is now beginning to explain why” – this is the title of the editorial published in the June 2008 issue of the medical journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. A new study in the journal discusses the effects of the polyphenol most abundant in green tea, (-) –epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG). Erich Wanker and colleagues at the Max Delbrück Institute for Molecular Medicine in Berlin-Buch, Germany have looked at the effect this substance has on the formation of certain fibrils associated with Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. According to the editorial cited above, these “new findings suggest that EGCG may prevent toxic fibril formation” (p. 537).

These findings follow on the heels of another story. In the September 2007 issue of Blood: Journal of the American Society of Hematology a scientific letter appeared about the possible effectiveness of green tea in curing amyloidosis, a medical condition in which amyloid proteins are abnormally deposited in organs and tissues of the body. The author Werner Hunstein, a renowned professor emeritus of hematology (University of Heidelberg), who suffers from amyloidosis himself, traces the effects of green tea in improving his own illness. Hunstein was diagnosed with amyloidosis in 2001, and the aggressive chemotherapy treatment that followed left him shattered. That he managed to recover his strength and go back to normal in his daily life, Hunstein attributes to green tea. When he began to drink large amounts of green tea (usually about two quarts per day), his condition improved significantly; the deposition of amyloid proteins was stopped, and his heart resumed beating more strongly.

Needless to say, he also believed in drinking clean tea. The tea Professor Hunstein drank was the Green Darjeeling from Teekampagne / Tea Campaign.