Since I was born in East Frisia, Assam Orthodox tea has always held a special place for me. I see it as an abstract connection to my heritage — the East Frisian tea culture — which is deeply tied to a region on the other side of the planet from Assam With this in mind, I naturally pay closer attention to these teas when tasting. Chinese teas are very interesting as well. Emotionally, however, I describe myself as a ‘black tea guy.’
You need to pay up and go after good-quality tea. You need to taste and taste because there are many similarities. To recognize good tea, you also need to gather tea literature. When you keep on tasting, you will begin to identify the differences, and that’s how you broaden your horizons.
The world of smells is closely linked to our experience. We work on memory, and so everyone describes tea with different terms. My role as a tea taster is to…
Tea wasn’t just what I did – it seemed to define who I am. As my close friends light-heartedly joke, “Kurush doesn’t drink tea to wake up, he wakes up to drink Tea!” and “If he won the lottery tomorrow, he’d still be doing tea!”
