Before Madura introduced green tea into Australia about thirty years ago, Aussies were already enjoying a fair share of herbal tea along with black varieties. Back in the time of the colonies, Australians were drinking tea in a frenzy, so much so that they were consuming the drink more than any other population in the world. And it wasn’t until the mid-1900s that the British dethroned Australians, but even so the latter followed closely from behind and remained the second most avid tea drinkers until later into the 1940s.
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So if tea farming in Australia is blossoming today, then that’s the reason right here: Australians are almost maniacs when it comes to drinking tea. And tea farmers are rocking at growing tea.
Willing to try some of the best tea producers in the country?
Madura
It’s not always that winning a food or beverage award makes a product truly outstanding, as many who have bought an awarded product and have been disappointed know, but the fact that Madura teas won Canstar Blue’s Blue Taste Award four years in a row has to mean something.
With a portfolio of more than 20 tea blends, Madura is today one of the most recognizable tea businesses in Australia. And the company’s commitment to sustainable approaches is definitely something to admire.
Some of the teas in their range: from traditional herbal teas – peppermint and chamomile to black tea, white, green and spiced chai. They also have organic options.
Two Rivers Green Tea
Northeast Victoria has just the right winters and enough rainfall to successfully harvest the Camellia sinensis, which is where 12-hectares of fertile land make a good green tea production every year.
Two Rivers Green Tea started when a family farm north east of Melbourne, on the Goulburn River sought to diversify activities and bring something new to the table: Japanese green tea, which the company has been harvesting using plants from Japan for about ten years.
With traditional and biological processing methods, the farm produces three green tea varieties.
Teas in their range: shincha, genmaicha, sencha.
Perfect South
To Renee Creer, who is one of the people behind Perfect South, selling green tea happened as a result of her leaving the wine industry and trying to discover a different product that she could relate to in a similar manner, a product that inspired a similar level of commitment and passion.
After tasting some of the Australian green tea that growers in Victoria were producing, she was sold, and Perfect South was born. So they are a good starting point if you want to try real Australian tea that comes from various tea makers.
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Perfect South sources from nine different plantations so they may be selling all green tea, but the selection does offer particularities. After all, not all green teas are created equal.