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Ebenezer Scrooge

Tea Taster & Buyer · Direct from Garden to Chest
Garden: Kochi, Kerala Wire: +91 (0)555 204 118 Post: e.scrooge@example.com Ledger: example.com/scrooge

Broker's Note

I taste, grade, and buy orthodox teas for export blenders, around 6,400 cups a season across Nilgiri, Munnar, and Assam second flush. Over 14 years I have moved from batch clerk to lead buyer, now placing roughly ₹18 crore in annual lots at the Kochi and Coonoor auctions. My rejection slips are short. My acceptance slips are shorter.

Plantation Lots · Service Record

Lot No. 04
Lead Buyer & Senior Taster
Malabar Chest & Leaf Co. · Kochi
FTGFOP1Finest Tippy Grade
Season 2020 – Present · Elevation: Willingdon Island Auction Rooms, 3 m AMSL
Tasting Notes
  • Body: buy 210 to 240 auction lots per season for 3 export blenders, holding blend cost within 2.1% of target for 5 consecutive years.
  • Character: built a 6-taster calibration bench with quarterly blind rounds; inter-taster grade agreement rose from 71% to 93%.
  • Finish: cut claim rates on shipped chests from 3.8% to 0.9% by adding a second dry-leaf sort before invoicing.
Lot No. 03
Estate Taster
High Wavys Garden Trust · Munnar
TGFOPTippy Golden Grade
Season 2015 – 2020 · Elevation: 1,880 m AMSL, South-West Aspect
Tasting Notes
  • Body: graded 40 to 55 batches weekly through two flushes; catalogued 1,200+ cupping records into the estate's first searchable ledger.
  • Character: flagged a withering-trough fault by cup profile alone; the fix lifted the estate's average auction price by ₹14 per kg that season.
  • Finish: trained 4 junior tasters on the 8-point cup sheet; all 4 passed the planters' association exam on first sitting.
Lot No. 02
Assistant Taster
Coonoor Leaf Exchange · Nilgiris
FOPFlowery Orange Pekoe
Season 2013 – 2015 · Elevation: 1,720 m AMSL
Tasting Notes
  • Body: prepared 300+ cups per auction day: weighed 2.8 g, brewed 5 min, laid out to the broker's bench without a single mislabelled bowl in 2 years.
  • Character: kept moisture and infusion logs for 96 gardens; auditors cited the ledger as reference standard in 2014.
Lot No. 01
Batch Clerk, Sorting Floor
Periyar Tea Works · Kumily
BOPBroken Orange Pekoe
Season 2011 – 2013 · Elevation: 1,140 m AMSL
Tasting Notes
  • Body: tallied and stencilled 60 to 80 chests daily; reconciled floor counts to dispatch manifests with under 0.5% variance.

Certificates of Origin

Schooling & Papers

Diploma, Tea Tasting & Manufacture
Southern Planters' Institute, Coonoor · 2011
First class · Cup evaluation 94/100

B.Sc. Agricultural Science
Kerala Hills University, Thrissur · 2007 – 2010

Licensed Auction Buyer
Kochi Tea Trade Board · No. KB-5512 · since 2016

Chest Marks · Skills

Orthodox Grading CTC Valuation Auction Bidding Blend Costing Moisture Audit Export Docs Malayalam Tamil English

Cup range: 40 lots per hour at full bench; scores repeat within half a point on blind re-taste.

Grade Legend

FTGFOP1Senior post. Full buying authority, own ledger, final say on the bench.
TGFOPEstate-level responsibility. Grades the day's make, signs the cup sheet.
FOPAssistant standing. Prepares the bench, keeps the logs.
BOPSorting floor. Where every taster should begin.