Group 12 Tea Case Study 2K16
As with many commodity products, tea has historically been ‘elevated’ from a ritual or medicinal beverage to a supporting product of global economy. In tandem with this shift comes certain side effects: plantation establishment...
Si Ji Chun tea, provided for tasting by Dewey Meyer. After steeping for 1:20 in slightly-cooler-than-boiling water, the tea (pale tan) began to reveal aromas of straw, new growth, jasmine. A sip of it...
Tea is used medicinally, ritualistically, and eventually became a drink of the mass populous. Now, tea is the second most popular drink in the world behind water. Tea is responsible, historically, for trade routes,...
1. During our tasting with Dewey Meyer, the program was introduced to a type of tea (Bai Hao) that is not harvested until the leaf is bitten by a leafhopper, a small insect that...
Terroir is the concept of combining certain elements of place to produce a particular flavor and/or feeling to an ingredient or meal. There are a wide variety of variables that can contribute to giving...
Much of tea flavor seems to be related to processing and the amount of fermentation, or lack thereof, that occurs in the tea leaves. Some of this fermentation is natural and some manmade. Certain...
