The taste of tea: How soil and microbes affect the drink's flavour


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Researchers in China think synthetic compounds could one day be added to soils to improve flavours. —CHRISTIN KLOSE/dpa

WHILE tea probably does not come with the same connoisseur or savant cachet as coffee, for drinkers there’s still “nothing like a nice cuppa,” as the saying goes.

Brewing that nice cuppa is usually not too hard, at least compared to some of the more ornate coffees available, so tea aficionados are perhaps more grounded and rooted than those who speak coffee jargon.

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