Climate to cup: the wet Rize coast, plantations on terraced slopes, hand-plucked harvest, processing, the double-pot demlik, the tulip glass, and a social culture that runs on it. Turkish tea cultivation only begins in the twentieth century, after the loss of Batum.
Tea cultivation in Turkey dates from the twentieth century, established on the Rize coast after the loss of the Batum tea districts. Turkeyโs tea culture is recent and enormous, and the date matters.documented