International Specialty Tea Manifesto

The tea industry is a fifty billion dollar a year business whose fastest growing sector is called ‘Specialty Tea’, which must be defined to establish value and give meaning to the term.

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Indian tea tasters evaluating chinese tea.

Standards For Specialty Tea — Taste

 Evaluating Tea Aroma

Standards For Specialty Tea — Aroma

 Anji Bai Cha tea leaves with a pale color

Standards For Specialty Tea — Color

 Sun drying silver needle tea

Standards For Specialty Tea – Percentage of Moisture Remaining

Standards For Specialty Tea — Processing

 Yancha Tea maker

Standards For Specialty Tea — Tea Maker
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