A trip abroad: The wild wild world of tea

Although it's not spoke of often enough tea & tea lovers have a culture that reaches across millennia, when you think about it that's not bad for one little plant.
While Camellia Sinensis has been on this planet far before recorded history and has remained pretty much unchanged Tea culture has changed, adapted and grown.
Asian, European and even American tea cultures have made incredible advances but they are all vary differently in their approaches but the one point that unifies is TASTE and while taste is wholly subjective there is still much commonality in the love of Black Teas, Green Teas, Pu-er, Oolongs, White Teas, Yellow Teas, even scented / flavored and bubble-tea should all have a place in the world of tea.



On my recent trip to America I had the opportunity to witness & sample many very individual approaches to tea and tea service, in the coming weeks i'd like to share some of my observations with you and see where you think tea culture is heading here in OZ.



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