My name is Giles Oakley and I am a Tea Buyer at Tetley. I'd be lying if I said my burning ambition as a child was to be a tea taster, in fact it wasn't until I saw the advert nearly 9 years ago that I realised such a role existed.

My top 3 tea drinking experiences in that time have been

3) Drinking very strong, very sweet tea in Pakistan with the construction team who were building our new factory. It was so thick you could almost stand your spoon up in it, but it kept you going all day.

2) On holiday in Morocco, I had Gunpowder Tea (Rolled Green Leaf) with Mint Leaves served in a tall glass. A very refreshing way to pass an afternoon in Marrakech…

1) A cup of single estate tea from Assam, drunk on the estate manufactured only hours earlier when in my role as Indian Tea Buyer. There's nothing like it!