Summary
A PROFESSIONAL tea sampling? I should have gone down fighting harder than I did. The tea selected was in teabag form, not loose leaf. I'm a stickler on this. Teabags are the pits, a swindle on the taste buds of the discerning tea tippler. The leaves are small, too finely ground, with the larger more fragrant leaves automatically de- selected by these abominable factory-packed dustbags. Loose leaf tea should always be chosen.
Worse followed. The tester teas were served in polystyrene containers. Would you drink claret out of a plastic bag? My case rests. And finally - horror of horrors - the tea had no chance to infuse in a fine china teapot. The teabag was just dunked into these ghastly beakers - probably made from recycled cardboard to boot. Civilisation? We slither daily further down the slope.See the full content of this document
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So What's It Like? We Put the Tea to the Test
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