How Do You Get A Consistent Flavour In Every Pack of Tea? - Tea Blending in a Nutshell!
Channel: Gadsden Tea
Date: 18/03/2017

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The question is, how do you get a consistent flavour in every pack of tea. It's a great question and goes to the heart of our task as tea tasters and blenders. People trust us to deliver the same flavour every time in our named blends. 

Tea is a natural product and varies for all the same reasons that wine varies - the soil and conditions (terroir) in different parts of the tea plantation, the weather - wind, rain, drought, cold - and climate including regular weather events such as the NE / SW monsoon that creates the quality seasons in different parts of Sri Lanka. 

To ensure consistency between different teabags in one batch, we make sure we blend them properly, and we wait for a few days after blending before we make the teabags (to allow the flavours to marry properly). 

We also taste obsessively at every stage of purchase and production. 

To ensure that an individual named blend does not change from one month to the next, we try to use a large number of individual teas in each blend (to average out variations), we taste carefully, we buy planning our needs several months ahead, and we blend to a standard (we tinker with each blend until it matches the standard). 

It's quite an absorbing challenge! Thanks for your question. 

- Andrew
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