Cuppa?

Tea started as a medicine and became a global drink. Perhaps the most popular non-alcoholic one in the world and not just because the Chinese, Japanese, Indians and British love it. And there are so many types of tea coming from only one tea plant. Tea is versatile, sure enough – there are hundreds of varieties – but the leaves actually come from the same bush: the Camellia sinensis and its many cultivars.

The leaves are treated in distinctive ways: they are mainly exposed to an oxidation process and only a few are being fermented. In some countries they eat tea, without meaning high tea, which in our country should actually be called afternoon tea. And then there are the necessary 'teas' that should not really be called that at all (mint tea, rooibos or redbush tea, verbena tea, etc.) because they have nothing to do with tea. Infusions or tisanes , that's what they are.

Main groups are: black, white, green, the very exclusive yellow, oolong and the only truly fermented pu'er tea, a dark earthy kind. There are all kinds of tea types attached to this and fortunately tea also has terroir, which means, we do have a choice. In short: tea is a journey! And traveling means: adventure!