Japanese tea is good but they’re pretty much about green tea. You know, matcha, sencha, bancha, that kind of thing. And it’s all well done, affordable too.
But you’re rarely going to find white tea, yellow tea, oolong, black tea, pu’ehr from Japan. And if you do, it’s unlikely going to be as good as what’s made in China.
Now Indian tea is very interesting because a subspecies of tea, very distinct from what’s grown in China, comes from there. I’m talking about Assam. It’s got a totally different flavour.
The problem is that Assam is almost always produced as a black tea, and usually CTC. Mind you, that’s beginning to change. I have tried green and white Assam teas before, and they’re incredible.
You won’t find yellow, oolong or pu’ehr Assam teas, though. I have never seen it.
Technically, Darjeeling could be an oolong, though I think it’s too fermented to be one. And funny enough, that’s not made from an Assam tea plant.
nostr:npub1jeqcnv0u9nyz8vjknegr2p62f54hfm3v9srudwq4rzarz4tqwk7qlujglm Sure. Yunan tea is good and all. Yet, if you can find black wild leaf tea from Vietnam that’s much better. Indian tea is expensive lately, so Nepalese black tea is a really good alternative there and has a different taste than typical Chinese black tea. Go for third flush if you want more nutty/hoeny taste or first flush for floral.
