Reply To: Best Tea Country in the World, On Average

I’d love to say that Hawai’i is best, of course. Everything’s delicious, fairly traded, developed in an environmentally conscious business, and the terroir is unique-but it’s expensive and snatched up by tourists just like New Zealand and Nepal. Even affluent people living in these places can’t share much of their country’s bounty because it’s not really bountiFUL. Unlike Chinese and Japanese citizens, no one can make these teas part of daily life. Weekly life at best. So a tea drinker in Korea, Japan, or a large city like Paris really has affordable, consistant access to top notch tea outside of internet orders.

Plus the cost of everything on Hawai’i is double on the mainland. It’s hard to afford gourmet tea when toothpaste is seven dollars. So I’d say East Asia is the most chajin-friendly region.

@thedevotea Is there tea grown in Australia? Interesting.