Turkey’s tea industry – The long and winding road

Consistently ranked among the Top 10 tea-producing countries in the world and frequently in the Top 5, Turkey today is a tea powerhouse on both the production and consumption sides of the equation. However, that has not always been the case. From the time the first tea seedlings were imported … Continue reading →

Teas of Russia, Turkey, and Iran

This is not the sort of flowing report one would wish to offer, especially inasmuch as the former Soviet Union was once a major tea producer with a fascinating history and interesting neighbors. Russian tea may well be extinct, and with it dies a tradition. What follows may be read … Continue reading →