The Best Tea
The Best Tea
Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of Camellia sinensis. After water, it is the most widely consumed drink in the world globolized after the Portuguese priests and merchants arriving from Macao first introduced it to Europe during the 16th century. There are many different types of tea some have a cooling, slightly bitter, and astringent flavour, while others have vastly different profiles that include sweet, nutty, floral, or grassy notes. During the 17th century, drinking tea became a fashionable pastime among the aristocracy in Victorian England, who started to plant tea on a large scale in India. Learn more on Wikipedia
