Many of us tea drinkers are accustomed to drinking our tea in the form of pre-packaged tea bags. Indeed, tea bags allow us the quick and easy comfort of plopping a tea bag into a piping hot cup of water with mess-free, almost instantaneous gratification.
On the other hand of the spectrum, some tea connoisseurs, who liken themselves to wine sommeliers, argue that loose-leaf teas have superior taste and body in comparison to their tea bag cousins.
Maria Paz, of the American Tea Council, is one of those tea connoisseurs who feels it is a shame that loose leaf-tea is not as widely embraced by the general public, "I always use loose-leaf and try to always make it in a teapot – If I don't have access to a teapot, I just use a tea infuser in the cup instead. But I always insist on loose-leaf, which is the important thing."
Those of us who have been using tea bags for as long as we can remember will probably ask ourselves, "Why? Why go through the additional troubles of dealing with the extra work?"
For Paz, the answer is easy, "People will be amazed by the difference." Around
95% of the tea Americans commonly drink is made from teabags – a pretty large percentage of the tea drinking population.
"I’d love
to get more people drinking proper loose-leaf tea every day,’ says Paz, "It
really is a much better quality of a final drink."
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