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| Posted on : 29 Apr, 2008 | Total Views : 57 |
Tea is a single word that expands into various forms. In all its forms, it shows its pleasant expressions by various means. It is a fresh green carpet like appearance on the mountain ranges, show of a great aesthetic in the misty clouds.
When made as a drink, its golden liquor occupies a place in the taste buds to linger on and on, you can not find words to explain its lovely taste. The tea unfolds its life into various forms to make the mankind enjoy its presence.
TEA IS A TEA PLANT:
Tea is a tree maintained as a bush for the convenience of the mankind to do cultural practices at ease and do the harvest also most comfortably. The tea bush is about a meter high and also 2 to 3 meters in diameter in spread. The teas grow as bushes at medium to high elevations on the hills. As a tree, tea is pruned once in a year and leaves are plucked periodically, the plant grows with lateral branches.
TEA IS A TEA LEAF:
Teas available in the market in packed condition are really processed tea leaves and their broken parts. It may be in full leaf form, tea in broken structure or tea in the powered form or called as dusts. All these tea leaves available in the market are not the very same. The sizes of teas are different and so the qualities. The color, taste and flavor of the tea leaves differ from estate to estate. They change with change in weather conditions, processing techniques and size of the tea grades.
TEA IS A TEA DRINK:
The main tea characters are its color, taste and flavor. The one more character is an additive character; when all these three characters are intensified, it is called the strength. These characters are witnessed when you drink the tea. The leaf tea has a special character with unique flavor with less of color. The broken teas are slightly stronger in color and tastier. The dusts or powder teas will yield more strong tea drink when compared with the bigger grades.
SPECIAL TEA DRINKS:
However, the color, taste, flavor and strength are brought out when made into a tea drink. The tea may be merely a raw extract of tea in golden color. This may be added with sufficient sugar and milk to give a special taste. The liquid gold may be added with the juice of lemon to make a lemon tea. A mint, cardamom or a ginger tea could be made with respective ingredients. They give additional taste and extraordinary spirit to the body and mind of the tea lover.
ALL THE TEAS ARE NOT THE SAME:
A common man thinks that all the teas available in the market are one and the same. But the truth is that almost all the teas are different and the unique characters in a tea are maintained by the companies by special evaluation and blending techniques.
You need to select some special teas for buying them to make occasions more special, when you are a tea lover. Your cup of tea should give a unique taste and happiness that lingers for a long time.
The author is a Post Graduate in Horticulture and a Self Imposed Tea Scientist, who identifies the best teas in the world and recommends for the tea lovers to buy and enjoy.
Written By : PNK.GURU
