Judges quaffed tea at more than 100 venues, and praised Hazelmere owners Ian and Dorothy Stubley - who have travelled the world to find the best tea leaves - for the excellence of their brews.
Visitors can ice skate by the sea, quaff a cuppa (afternoon tea) and treats, enjoy carolers and more.
Americans now quaff three times more coffee than tea, according to Euromonitor, a research firm.
By the 1870s, the occasion was drawing middle class women out of the home, where they could quaff their Earl Grey together in newly-flourishing tea houses, which, says Gray, eventually led to the suffragette movement.
Best of all is hot tea, poured generously, and a welcome quaff on a cold winter's night.
Onstage quaff: Lately, I've switched from Grand Marnier to herbal tea.
While middle-class Pakistanis go out for high tea, eat buttery pastries, visit ice cream parlors, snack on doughnuts and quaff coffee, their cooks eat cold chapattis and raw onions.
London is all about the liquid — the 60 billion cups of tea Brits drink each year, the 27 million pints of beer quaffed each day, the 23 or so inches of rain that fall, on average, in London each year.
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Then, in 1917, the Kousmichoff family moved Kusmi Tea to Paris, where the teas, often blended with whiffs of citrus and flowers, have remained a quaff of connoisseurs.
