DRY LEAF

SANDY containing sand.

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Legend ascribes the creation of tea plant to Daruma or Bodhidharma – the founder of Zen Buddhism. Centuries ago, the saint fell asleep while meditating near Nanking in China. He cut his eyelids when he woke up as he had punished himself. A plant came up where the eyelids had fallen. Its leaves were found to give a brew that could banish sleep. This is how the tea plant was born and the tea beverage came into being.

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Legend ascribes the creation of tea plant to Daruma or Bodhidharma – the founder of Zen Buddhism. Centuries ago, the saint fell asleep while meditating near Nanking in China. He cut his eyelids when he woke up as he had punished himself. A plant came up where the eyelids had fallen. Its leaves were found to give a brew that could banish sleep. This is how the tea plant was born and the tea beverage came into being.

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The tea plant whose botanical name is “Camellia Sinensis”, if allowed to grow its own way, would rise to height of some 25 feet and flower or fruit like any other perennial semi-deciduous tree. In order, however, to produce tea on a commercial scale, saplings are planted close to each other and repeatedly pruned or clipped to induce luxuriant leaf growth sideways as well as to avoid blossoming. The saplings take three to seven years to mature into bushes and if well cultivated yield leaf profically for as long as a century.

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DRY LEAF

MAKE good style.

MILLED put through cutter or mill.

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Chai (Arabic: شَاي, Hindi: चाय, Urdu/Persian: چاى, Russian: чай, Turkish: çay [1]) is the word for tea in South Asia and the Middle East, mainly northern India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and the other regional countries. It is a derivative of the Chinese word cha (茶) for tea. Synonyms in other languages are the Bengali chā, the Marathi chahā and the Tamil thaeneer.

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It may sound silly, but what is it that makes tea so popular? It is by far the most popular drink in the world today, drank by people in every country on earth. But why?
Simplicity

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DRY LEAF

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A continuation of the list of terms at the Tasting Room…

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