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T Tea

What Are They Drinking?

A Glance at Top 5

Tea Drinking Countries

Although Chinese tea has been welcomed by young generation, most people still associate it with old times
and traditions. That might be the reason why China ranked only 19th in the statistic of tea consumption coun-
tries conducted by Euromonitor. So what makes people in those countries be tea-holics? Is there any cultural
and historical reason behind or is it just a trend?

TURKEY (Average annual tea consumption
NO.1 per capita: 6.961pounds)

Turkish people don’t just enjoy drinking tea; they simply adore the
drink. Turkey’s nearly 7 pounds (3.2 kg) per person a year is the largest
amount of consumed tea in the world. It is actually less than 100 years
that the first tea tree was introduced to Turkey. After failing to adopt
Chinese tea, Turkey tried to use Georgian tea tree and planted it next to
Rize area and it worked. Turkish tea is usually made by brewing slightly
roasted loose black tea, then adding boiling water to dilute it according to
customers’ requirement. People often consume it with a lot of sugar but
no milk. Following the diversity requirement of tea varieties in the global
tea market, Turkey has a nearly ten years’ history of green tea production,
starting from 2008. Turkey also introduced Fuding White Tea (No.1 Chi-
nese tea), and started to produce white tea since 2014.

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