Tea is the world's most popular beverage. From the north of Russia to the tip of southern Africa, from the West Coast of America to the Far East, tea is enjoyed in endless different ways. Its versatility makes it the perfect drink, adaptable to every climate and culture.

The wide variety of teas and tea customs often disguises the fact that they all come from the same plant, Camellia Sinensis. The tea plant flourishes with plentiful rain (at least a metre a year), acid soils, and quite specific seasonal variations in temperature. Despite the need for such conditions, along with regional and climatic differences it can still produce hundreds of subtle variations of flavour and aroma - enough to make the world of tea as varied as those who drink it.

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