S. Chancellor > writes:

> [...]
> I'm very surprised about the variety in taste between green teas I've
> tried. I am wondering if it has something to do with whether or not
> the tea leaf was withered before it was steamed. I was just reading
> that some are and some aren't.

Yes, that has something to do with it. But mainly it's the simple
fact that green tea has been cultivated and manufactured for
(conservatively) two thousand years over a wide geographic range.
Would you be surprised at wide variation in the taste of wines?

/Lew
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