Why we love Tea?

Ask a tea addict what is a morning without his/her first cuppa tea?

Tea is so often compared to wine: you can judge it by its colour, its aroma, its body, its strength. A good black is like a full red. A light green is like a Beaujolais. You can drink it young or drink it aged. There’s also ordinary tea, house tea and gourmet tea. And, like wine, tea needs a cool, dark and dry storing place.

But here, the comparison ends in tea’s favour:

You can get a perk out of tea but the cops can’t touch you! Your mind gets clearer the more tea you drink. And what’s more, you don’t need a license to drink tea!

From the famous Chinese treatise on tea, the ch’a ching: The best quality leaves must have “creases like the leathern boot of tartar horseman, curl like the dewlap of mighty bullock, gleam like a lake touched by Zephyr, and be wet and soft like fine earth newly swept by rain.”

Ever since tea was discovered, it’s been the subject of much adulation thanks to its unique properties. From traditional herbalists who prescribe it as a panacea for all ills, to tea addicts who often compare it with vintage wine, to schools of poets who have waxed lyrical about it for centuries. Even modern science has bestowed on it anti-cancer properties!