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Chinese Green Tea according to legend was discovered by the Chinese Emperor Shen Nung about 5000 years ago. Being very health conscious, the emperor recommended that everyone boil their drinking water. Little did he know that his passion for hygiene would be the foundation for the creation of Chinese Green Tea. One day while his servants were boiling water some tea leaves found their way into the pot and were left to brew. Shen Nung drank his brew, enjoyed it and noticed he felt alert and refreshed. During the Tang Dynasty which lasted from lasted from 618-907 A.D., Lu Yu wrote the monograph “Cha Jing” or “The Classic of Tea”. It was the first and definitive guide on how to make and enjoy tea. From China, green tea made its way to Japan around 800 A.D. and eventually around the world. Green Tea is rich in polyphenols and has been suggested to lower the chances of cancer and heart disease, something Shen Nung had no way of knowing in his time. Intuitively he felt his new found beverage would be beneficial to man. Chinese Green Tea was born 5000 years ago and we are still love it today. Enjoying green tea every day is a delicious way to stay sharp. Ceylon tea was preceded by cinnamon and coffee in Sri Lanka. The Dutch had a thriving cinnamon industry until the British restricted private plantations; this gave the East India Company a monopoly on the crop. When an economic slump battered England and made cinnamon unprofitable it was replaced with coffee. Between 1815 and the late 1860’s coffee grown in Ceylon was among the world’s best. In the late 1860s coffee rust disease decimated Ceylon’s coffee industry. Around that time, tea production in the Assam region of India was strong. Fortunately for Sri Lanka, then known as Ceylon, James Taylor in 1866 cleared 21 acres and planted tea at the Loolocondera estate. His efforts led to Sri Lank becoming one of the world’s leading tea exporting countries in the world today. Ceylon tea is grown as white, green, and black teas. Grown at various altitudes they all develop unique flavor profiles. Ceylon Black Tea is the countries specialties’ used both as unmixed and blended, with and without flavors. Enjoy Pure Ceylon Black Tea today. Irish Morning Rum Cream Tea – incredible! We had a tasting today of some of our new teas that will be on the website soon. One of the best flavored teas was Irish Morning Rum Cream. It’s a black tea with a strong, smooth flavor of rum and the silkiness of cream in your cup. We found it was also delicious with a drizzle of amber agave nectar, which reminded us of one of our favorite liquers.
Tea tasting is a dirty job, Started with several white teas, the green teas, moved on to some terrific oolong teas, and then, lastly of course, some black teas. My favorite of the day was a nice Castleton Estate FTGFOP Darjeeling. | Previous Posts
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