I don’t just like black tea. I also love white, yellow, green, oolong, and pu-ehr tea.
Generally, the best tea grows in China.
But if you want quality and consistency at a low price, Japanese tea is good.
Indian tea can be good but you have to work harder to find it. That’s because most Indian tea importers just don’t give a damn. They just keep sending us CTC. Not that CTC is inherently bad, just that I would never drink it without milk or other accoutrements.
I think the reason Chinese tea is so good is because they’ve literally mastered everything there is to about making tea. And they still innovate even now.
As in, 60 years ago, accelerated fermentation of ripe (shóu) pu’ehr didn’t exist. But now it does, and it’s excellent.
Nowhere else but China makes that kind of tea. And that’s also true of yellow tea. Or Dancong oolong. Or various flowering teas that bloom when you brew it.
Only China makes that kind of tea.
