Tea is well known throughout the world and is the most popular beverage next to water in the entire world. Everyone who has sat down with a cup of lovingly brewed tea knows how soothing and calming it can be to sip at the wonderful, heady and aromatic beverage.

The tea that is drunk by the majority of the world population and taken for granted by most of them can be produced only in certain regions of the world. The climate and the soil have to be ideally suited for tea in order to get a flourishing crop.

Like the great wines of France are identified by where they are grown tea also displays characteristics of the region, climate and soil that the tea bushes have been grown. It is sometimes hard to believe that the same Camellia Sinensis or the tea bush produces teas with such different tastes and strengths.

Tea processing is a fine tuned method of transforming the leaf buds of the Camellia Sinensis plant to dried leaves of different qualities and types.

Five thousand years ago in China, the Second Emperor Shen Nung was drinking a cup of hot water which was accidentally infused with the leaves of a nearby tree and thus tea was discovered.

Tea has been the beverage of choice for centuries in many parts of the world. All the myriad types of tea owe their origin to an evergreen twiggy bush known as Camellia Sinensis or the tea bush.