Global Tea Regions

The largest tea-growing region in the world produces 700 million kilos a year. Inside the Indian floodplain that fills your morning mug.

by Sameera

Kenya is the world's largest exporter of black tea — and almost no one outside the trade can name a single Kenyan estate. A look at tea's most under-recognised power.

by Sameera

From Daintree rainforest to the New South Wales hinterland, a small but ambitious Australian tea industry is producing world-class single-origin teas.

by Sameera

Until 1869, Sri Lanka grew coffee. A fungal blight killed every plant on the island. The British replanted with tea — and one of the world's great tea regions was born.

by Sameera

An hour south of Kyoto, a riverbank town has been growing the world's finest matcha for 800 years. A field report.

by Sameera

The wild tea forests of Yunnan are still home to 1,000-year-old trees. A journey to the misty origin of every cup on Earth.

by Sameera

Tucked between the Black and Caspian Seas, the Caucasian republic of Georgia has been growing tea for 175 years — and almost nobody outside the region knows it.

by Sameera

We travel to the first-flush gardens of West Bengal to meet the hands behind the world's most delicate black tea.

by Sameera

From high-mountain Dong Ding to the global juggernaut of boba — Taiwan punches far above its weight in tea culture.

by Sameera