Tea & Wine

烏龍茶 Oolong tea

Every time, after reading some comic books which talk about how to understand and enjoy different kinds of wines, I always think deeply why people cannot drink tea in this way........

Tea trees and grapes are all plants. They are all taken care by sunshine, rain, temperature, soil, and all this kinds of natural elements. It means we cannot control these natural elements, but follow the elements to supply the lacks.

I don't know wines well, but I could understand that some wines tasted worse than average because of severe weather or barren years. Even wines take few years to ripen in oak barrels, the defects could not be cover or fix complitely all the time. Fortunately people could comprehend with it and accept it.

Tea is same as wine, but the difference between tea and wine is making tea just takes few days, not years. If the weather was too hot or too cold, tea leaves might grow too fast to lose flavor, or too slow to lose fragrance, and there are many situations like this. According to these phenomenons, tea leaves SHOULD be worse than average ( or better than average ) sometimes. It is agriculture. It is a plant. It is natural.

All of us have to realize the fact and accept it further, then finally the market of tea could be trusted and people who are interested in tea could really enjoy th world of tea.