HOW TO TASTE TEA A tea drinker can have a quite uncritical palate and yet derive enormous enjoyment from tea; knowing how to tea-taste in any formal sense is not a prerequisite to appreciating it. But having some discrimination about what you sip from your teacup heightens appreciation and thus makes tea drinking more rewarding and interesting.
HOW TEA EXPERTS TASTE TEA There are several points along the route that tea takes from bush to grocer's shelf where some assessment of its quality is called for. It spite of the rapid growth of technological improvements in the production of tea, no scientific analysis yet devised can replace the judgement of an expert tea taster after cup sampling.