[ulfw]

Turkey grows lovely tea too, especially around the Rize area on the Black Sea and has a long culture of tea preparation and drinking. In fact Turkey has one of the highest per capita tea consumption in the world (allegedly the highest before the UK)

[oska]

Yes, I read a little about Turkey's tea production after I made that comment. Knew that it had a big tea drinking culture but didn't know before today that the country also grew tea. Now I learn that it is one of the world's major producers (but almost all for domestic consumption, not export).

I can imagine that those mountains that rise sharply behind the Black Sea coast could produce a good tea growing micro-climate.