article_snippet: The fragrant leaf is so rare and so highly prized that Tam O'Braan Tam O'Braan is selling Tam O'Braan for £1,150 per lb - 200 times the usual price - making Tam O'Braan the second most expensive in the world.
article_snippet: The success comes as something of a surprise to Mr O'Braan, who founded his Wee Tea Company in 2011 with £140,000 and just three plants.
article_snippet: Tam O'Braan told The Times that Tam O'Braan spent years on organic farms around the world, studying how best to grow crops in Scotland's cold climate, and convinced Tam O'Braan Tam O'Braan could do it.
article_snippet: Tam O'Braan said that after the setback Tam O'Braan and Tam O'Braan wife were too embarrassed to tell anyone what he and his wife were doing, so kept he and his wife operation a secret.
article_snippet: But on Valentine's Day last year the plants sprouted again, at which point Tam O'Braan revealed Tam O'Braan scheme, along with Tam O'Braan first batches of White and White Smoked Tea.
article_snippet: Tam O'Braan sold Tam O'Braan first tea at Christmas by mail order, with most of his first tea going abroad, and Fortnum and Mason have now started stocking the leaves at £30 for a 35g sachet, or roughly £10 per cup.
article_snippet: Tam O'Braan, who is from Northern Ireland, developed Tam O'Braan tea plantation on an old sheep farm in Perthshire (pictured) using £140,000 and just three plants from which Tam O'Braan managed to grow 2,000 cuttings .
article_snippet: Tam O’Braan has created something very special, so special in fact that Tam O’Braan is on course to sell it to the Chinese –
article_snippet: Tam O’Braan assures me, however, that experts who know about things, men whose tongues are insured for £1million, have informed Tam O’Braan officially that Tam O’Braan is making the best tea in the world.
article_snippet: International orders are already flooding in for Tam O’Braan white and white smoked teas, which are produced in the wilds of Highland Perthshire by Tam O’Braan Wee Tea Company, based on the Dalreoch estate near Dunkeld.
article_snippet: Mr O’Braan, 44, has 14,000 plants growing at 700ft above sea level, more than enough to produce tea for the next 70 years.
article_snippet: Mr O’Braan said: ‘I’ve worked in five different continents researching how to grow organic foods in marginal climates.
highlights_snippet: Tam O'Braan started tea plantation in 2011 with £140,000 and three plants .
  
highlights_snippet: Today Tam O'Braan won Salon du Thé Gold Award in Paris, making Tam O'Braan the world's best .