A cup of hot tea drunk in nature or on the road is estimated at all as in the usual apartment or urban conditions. Drink & laquo; takeaway & raquo; everyone seems richer, more fragrant, and just tastier. However, for proper preparation, it is not enough just to buy high-quality tea, you still need to know all the subtleties of brewing in a thermos.

Legends about the appearance of tea & ndash; great multitude. And this is not surprising, because & laquo; tea story & raquo; is rooted in deep antiquity, and we can learn about that time only from traditions. But despite the diverse stories, everyone agrees that the drink's birthplace & ndash; it is & laquo; Celestial & raquo;.

Green and black tea could be twin brothers, because they are produced from the leaves of the same Camellia sinensis tea bush, but they differ so much in taste and properties that many consider them completely different species.

The CTC marking on the packaging means that the tea offered is granulated. The international classification stands for Crushing, Tearning, Curling, and translates as Grind, Tear, Twist. Raw materials for such tea can be both high-quality and low-quality & ndash; it all depends on the manufacturer and price category. You can most likely buy granulated tea, both black and green, from India or Sri Lanka.

Yunnan, as the historical homeland of the Puers, was established by the method of biochemical analysis carried out in the middle of the twentieth century. It is in the jungles of this province, along with adjacent plantings in Vietnam and Upper Burma, that tea trees are carriers of the maternal gene.

Countries producing tea for export: Indian tea Chinese tea Ceylon tea Japanese tea

Teas are divided into many varieties and species according to various characteristics. Understanding all the variety is quite simple.

Before fresh tea leaves are processed, they undergo a preliminary sorting step, during which dirty, diseased, etc. tea leaves are rejected. Sometimes, at the same stage, the highest quality flushes for elite teas are selected. This sort is only done manually.