Plantation history and contemporary Business of Tea

The plantation history and contemporary business of tea

The production and growing of tea on a commercial level is a very large industry,

with a large number of plantations and consumers of tea. Sarah Besky’s book,

“The Darjeeling distinction” does a very good job of truly showing the reading

how the modern tea plantation works. While reading the book you can quickly

notice that Besky really focuses on the quality of life of the plantation workers,

and the terroir of the tea grown from these plantations. Some people argue that

terroir even exists in tea, or if it is just a genius way to market the product

produced from these plantations. While doing a variety of tea tastings of a wide

variety of teas from different regions of the world and you can definitely taste

the difference in tea flavor. What was weird was that some of the teas from

different regions tastes almost exactly the same. Which is why some people

could argue that terrior is just a marketing scheme.