When it comes to tea, the first thing that comes to mind is the English tradition of "5 o'clock Tea". Who doesn't love to pamper themselves with a cup of aromatic tea at the end of the day? However, tea culture is rooted in the traditions of Ancient China. It was in the Middle Kingdom that tea became a traditional drink. The ceremoniality of drinking tea was also based there, which has survived to this day.

A tea set

The main thing in tea culture is not only the taste and characteristics of various types of tea, but also a special aesthetic pleasure that you get during the process itself. In order to fully enjoy all the delights of tea drinking, having felt the depth of taste originality, it is not necessary to arrange a tea ceremony. Sometimes it is enough to purchase a beautiful tea set and the feeling of the exclusivity of the process will come with it. In addition, such a set will be an excellent gift even for a boss or leader for a round date.

Fancy mugs

Each tea lover has in his arsenal several mugs for different occasions: a favorite mug, a work mug, a mug for special occasions, a mug for friends. But there are also real fans up to various non-standard mugs. Indeed, sometimes a mug can convey hobbies and an unusual look at the things of its owner, or just perfectly fit into the interior and please the eye. In the event that you know the favorite hobby of a friend or relative to whom you are going to give such a present or just make an original gift, then unusual mugs, as well as those that change the pattern depending on the temperature of the contents, would be a great idea.

Thermo mug

Thermo mug was, is and will remain an irreplaceable thing for those who are often on the road and cannot imagine their life without a warm drink at hand. Sometimes there is no way to stop by somewhere on the road to have a cup of hot tea, so having a small one with you will be very useful on any trip. In the event that you are used to drinking a certain tea or herbal tea, then the thermo mug will be an irreplaceable companion both on the road and at work.

Knitted mugs

As a gift for the closest and most beloved tea fans, you can pick up an original knitted mug. Such, it seems, a small and ordinary little thing will add comfort not only to your home, but also to your hearts. With this mug, one begs to sit on a cold evening under a blanket, drink your favorite tea (and possibly hot chocolate) and read an interesting book.

Dishes for the ceremony

For true connoisseurs of Chinese tea traditions, it will undoubtedly be an important gift. Earthenware, glass, cups and bowls, gongfu teapot, cha he, a drain teapot and many other utensils. Such a variety of tea can not be imagined by any layman, and for connoisseurs, these are integral attributes and irreplaceable components of such an important process as tea drinking.

A teapot stand is not only an element of everyday life that protects the table from burns, but also an interior detail. It can be either with the so-called heating function (a candle is placed inside the glass container, and the kettle itself is placed on top), as well as aromatic wood or an unusual stand made of stone and ceramics. A rug made of bamboo or knitted for an already cooled teapot is already considered a classic. You can also watch. After all, most of us have come across a round stain from a drink on the table, so everyone will be pleased and useful to acquire such a means of protecting against tea circles.

Funny little things to make life easier and cheer up are sometimes vital. When you don't want to take out the bag, and it is not very convenient to hold it with your finger, it comes to the rescue. They are currently presented in a wide variety of forms and styles. Most of them are funny figures of insects or animals that will definitely delight children and will not be overlooked by positive adults with a sense of humor.

Of course, the main character of the tea party is himself. Usually, buying it in paper bags or boxes, it tends to crumble and erode. To protect such a delicate product, the best solution would be to pour it into a suitable size. People who are really keen on the variety of tea store more than one such container on their shelves. Therefore, a set of special tea jars would be a good gift idea. They can be selected based on the particular aesthetic and practical requirements of each tea fan.

When it seems that all possible and impossible attributes for tea drinking are already in more than one set, you can think of decorative gifts. Not every amateur and even not every professional is inclined to collect props on their shelves, but one unusual cup will be an excellent decoration in the kitchen. Such a gift can be made with your own hands, for example, a cup made using the papier-mâché technique will look very organic and creative in almost any interior. And for a girl, you can pick up a beautiful pendant or earrings in the shape of a cup, which will always remind you of your tea addiction.

Tea ceremony certificate

The last gift in our selection, but not the least, will be. It is suitable if the person to whom you are going to present the gift is really keen on ceremonial features and wants to delve into the process or experience all the features of tea drinking. After all, the process of drinking tea is not just another meal, but a whole culture.

Everyone's taste preferences are different: someone loves tart and aromatic coffee, others like a pleasant cocoa drink, and many will not resist a cup of hot and aromatic tea. Tea is a universal gift. It is perfect for a boss, colleague, teacher, educator, close friend, parents. When presenting a tea present, one can ignore either gender, age, or temperament of the addressee, or his hobbies. Tea is a great gift for everyone. Just do not forget about the design, it is still somehow trite to give a simple cardboard package.

Many tea manufacturers have a special line of gift-format products:

Cans
Wooden boxes
Carved boxes

In this case, there is no need to come up with additional design, it will even be superfluous. But still, if you want your gift to be remembered for a long time, pick up tea and make a package for it yourself.

Choosing tea for a gift

And although, as the popular saying goes, there are no comrades in taste and color, there are varieties of fragrant drink that will appeal to almost everyone, without exception.

Puer

One of these types is a healthy tea with a tonic effect - pu-erh tea. The Chinese believe that it will save you from hundreds of diseases. True, in the event that it is properly prepared.

This tea can be compressed into various forms:

Square
Crap
Nest
Bowl
Half an orange
Mini tocha (small "tablet")

Such an original and varied form was invented for a reason: tea in a briquette is suitable for a respectable and self-confident man, but a set of mini points with fruit or nut-herbal shades is a present for a gentle and sophisticated woman.

Surprisingly, but true: Puerh is prized by the year of the crop, and like cognac, the older, the more exquisite. The explanation is simple: the complex leaf fermentation process takes more than one year. Therefore, it takes quite a long time for the product to ripen. True, the payment for tea with a more pronounced taste and aroma is much higher. But this is not a hindrance to real connoisseurs.

The drink differs not only in its taste characteristics, but also has differences in color. And, accordingly, pu-erh tea is divided into two independent teas: Shu Puer ("ripe") and Shen Puer ("raw"). The processing technology of the first is more accelerated, it is almost equal in color to black, but nutty notes slip in the taste. As for the second, it looks more like green tea and gives off a fruity sourness. True, Shen tends to ripen. If you keep it at home, of course, not for a day or two, but for several years, the taste will be completely different.

Oolong

Oolong tea with unusual name... The translation from the Chinese language is quite original - "black dragon". Like pu-erh tea, this tea is healthy, pleasant and great for a gift. It also undergoes fermentation, albeit much faster: it will take only a few hours to impart specific aromatic notes.

The assortment of oolong is presented in two types:

Saturated with a tart woody-floral scent of Da Hong Pao
Delicate and spicy, often honeyed, Tie Guan Yin

There is another variety - flavored oolong. This includes tea leaves that have received additional aromatization during preparation in the form of:

Rose petals
Ginseng and osmanthus flowers

Do not forget about milk oolong, which is very popular in our country. This tea emits a pleasant smell of milk and caramel when brewed. What can not be said about a fake, which is easy to identify by a pungent smell even through the cardboard packaging.

Bound tea

There is another type of tea, which is distinguished by its extraordinary beauty, and its name is associated. Such a drink - a ball - weave different varieties inside which a flower lives. The friend to whom you present this present will receive two gifts in one: a unique taste and a vivid sight when the bud opens right in a glass teapot. The color options are different: lily, peony, lotus. Yes, this painting is truly delightful and suggestive of Chinese philosophy and the meaning of the ancient language of flowers. Each bud is unique in nature, so the bound tea is the most original and unforgettable surprise.

Original ways of presenting a tea gift

1. A set for a true tea connoisseur

What does tea set mean? One invigorating drink is indispensable here; it is necessary to supplement it with the obligatory accessories:

Biscuits
Sweets
A jar of honey or a box of sugar
Tea mug or teaspoon
Lollipops
Lemons

An original addition will also be a book of tea recipes or an encyclopedia describing tea ceremonies. You can pack such a set in a basket, gift box or in a rough linen bag.

2. Jar of tea

It has become a fashionable trend to give presents in transparent jars. This option is easy and simple to apply in our case. Different containers are suitable: with a glass lid on a clip, with a metal or nylon lid. You can decorate it, your ideas have a place to be, but we offer the most common:

Stick on a label with an interesting designation of the content
Attach a tag
"Put on" a homemade hat on the lid
Dress up in lace

Do not skimp when coming up with inscriptions:
Antistress
A cure for all diseases
Herbal sedative
And let the whole world wait…
Tea break

And what to put in this very jar? The answer is simple: everything that is somehow connected with tea and an important condition - fit inside a glass container: packs of a loose drink, bags with different flavors, chocolate candies and caramels, teaspoons, you can choose personalized ones.

3. A teapot with a secret

You can use a new teapot instead of a regular can. This will be both a container for storing bags and another gift. And absolutely any is suitable for this purpose: plastic, ceramic, glass, metal. True, it is still better to give preference to a transparent one, so that the hero of the occasion can immediately see the rich content of the presentation.

4. Mug with filling

You can donate not a huge jar filled with tea bags, but just a small mug. Leave the contents the same as in the case of the jar, only it will be slightly smaller due to the smaller volume. The filled mug must be wrapped in special transparent paper. And that's all - the gift is ready!

5. Tea house

There is a solution that does not require any special work at all. Buy a dispenser, otherwise called a tea bag house, from a kitchenware store, fill it up and donate. Simple, fast and original.

6. Tea cake

Cakes are different, both edible and inedible. The second option in modern times is not less common than the first. The basis for such cakes is candy, money, diapers, juices. A similar structure can be easily assembled from tea. Moreover, you can use both individual bags, for example, on the top layers, and whole boxes.
You can also make a combined cake by adding chocolate to the above ingredients. Such a structure does not require knowledge of special technology, the main thing is to make the foundation. As a material, you can use: low cardboard cylinders, cans or cylindrical boxes. Foam bases are also suitable for this purpose. When the platform is selected, you should think about fixing. There are several ways: using paper clips, a rubber band or double-sided tape. Do not forget about decoration: the braid, worn over the bags, will give the cake an elegant look.

7. Tea box

In this case, absolutely any casket will do, the only thing left to do is to fill it with tea bags. Better if they come in different flavors. Of course, now you can buy such a set ready-made, but there are two significant drawbacks: they are often too expensive, and the tea may not be collected the one that you would like to present as a gift.

8. Christmas tea bag wreath

Such a gift can be presented not only for a birthday or New Year but also for Christmas. On this holiday, it will be even more appropriate. It is made, like all the previous ones, with your own hands. For crafts you need a blank - a cardboard ring. You need to attach clothespins to it, they are needed in order to hold the tea bags. Don't forget the tape. With its help, a ribbon is made for attaching a wreath, for example, over a door. Be smart: add chocolates, such a Christmas decoration will definitely appeal to the hero of the occasion.

9. Tea tree

New Year's holidays are countless, you will need a lot of gifts, another solution will be a Christmas tree made in an unusual technique. A small souvenir will decorate the table of colleagues or friends.

It is not difficult to make it. First, glue the cardboard cone, remember: it must be stable. And then attach green tea bags on the double-sided tape in even rows. The Christmas tree is ready!

After a long weekend in January, this pleasant reminder can be used for its intended purpose - to drink tea. And complete with cookies or chocolate bars, this break will be unforgettable.

10. "Cup of tea"

The name prompts us to imagine ordinary tea-drinking utensils, but everything is completely different. This gift option is suitable for those who can easily and quickly make a paper craft. But you can fill it not only with tea bags, but also, as is customary, with sweets. A paper bowl made using the newfangled quilling technique will play the role of an original wrapping for your gift.

11. Purse for tea

But it will not be difficult for needlewomen to make a gift at all. You can sew a special purse for tea bags. This thing, of course, is not so indispensable in the household, but it will fill the kitchen design with warmth and comfort. Such a wallet is very convenient to carry and enjoy delicious drink at work with colleagues.

Beautiful packaging for tea

All of the above ideas are interesting and unusual, but sometimes they cause difficulty in implementation. There is also a completely simple, but no less original way - to come up with a separate bright packaging for tea bags. To make it, you will need a minimum of materials:

Wrapping
Simple pencil
Ruler
Glue
Ribbons and lace
Beads, beads or buttons

The sizes of the tea bags are standard, so you will need rectangles with sides of 23 and 7 centimeters. When they are ready, draw a thin line along the narrow side to the right and left, stepping back half a centimeter from the edge. The next step is to bend the rectangles so that you get 3 parts, the first of which is 6 centimeters, the second is 9, and the third is 8 centimeters.

Half a centimeter, marked at the very beginning of the manufacture of the wrapper, is cut off from the smallest part. And on the fold folded from the other two parts, it is necessary to cut a small and shallow triangle. After all the manipulations done, the allowances are bent inward and the packaging sachets are glued together. There is only a final moment left - to wait until it is completely dry and decorate with the prepared decor to your liking.

Fantasy Labels

Tea, bags, boxes, wrappers - all this can be decorated and presented in an original way. But we completely forgot about the labels. After all, you can do and decorate them. True, first you need to tear off the old tags.

There are also many design options for batch labels, let's look at the main ones. The first is to cut out paired figures and fasten them at the end of the thread from tea bag... Hearts, clouds, apples can act as such.

And the second option is more laborious - to glue the envelopes and put a note with warm wishes or aphorisms inside each one.

Tea is a drink that contains many vitamins useful for the human body. He gives warmth, and we, presenting such a gift - care and attention. Give original gifts! Let the tea party be pleasant and unforgettable.

For those who love unusual holidays and are looking for an excuse to have fun, it will be nice to know that December 15 is celebrated all over the worldInternational tea day... Probably, one cannot say that this is a great holiday that everyone should celebrate, but if you get bored and want to break away, but there is no reason - here it appears to you! On this day, there was a great opportunity to drink tea with friends, relatives, go to visit, taste the most various varieties of your favorite drink, and just have a pleasant time with your loved ones and relatives, taking advantage of such a pleasant occasion.

You can hardly meet a person who says that he does not like tea. Another matter in preferences, someone drinks only green, some prefer exclusively black, and there are those who love fruit and flower teas. In any case, on such a day, everyone will be happy to join the circle of lovers of this aromatic and popular drink, which can be drunk with cake, sweets and your grandmother's favorite jam.

If you are going to visit on such a pleasant occasion, of course, it is simply indecent to go empty-handed. Found a reason to go to visit, now you need to find a gift that will please the owners and give pleasant minutes from its purchase. You shouldn't even choose expensive gifts, it will be enough to buy a small accessory of the corresponding theme and your surprise was a success! Such a souvenir as an item forbrewing tea in the form of a fur sealwill appeal to everyone who loves creative things and who loves freshly brewed tea, which has retained all the notes of taste and smell.

Seal for tea making

Where can I buy:

540 rubles

For those who prefer to drink not only tasty, but also healthy tea, which gives energy and allows you to give strength to the body, you can present a healthy and aromatic drink -Ivan tea with the addition of cherry leaves.Everyone knows about the benefits of ivan tea, such a drink will help to fight seasonal respiratory diseases during winter cold periods, lower blood pressure, due to the content of special substances, this tea will allow you to maintain youth and give vigor for the whole day.

Ivan tea with cherry leaf

Where can I buy:

400 rubles

In order to convey all the taste and harmony of your favorite drink, you need to brew it not only correctly, following all the recommendations, but also in a special container that can preserve both the taste and aroma, and also reveal all the notes of the components contained in the tea. In this case, porcelain dishes are the best fit, or rathera tea setconsisting of a teapot and a cup. White noble color conveys all the elegance of the presented set, which, when assembled, looks like one integral element, but in fact allows you to use it in various versions.

Egoist porcelain tea set, white

Where can I buy:

841 rubles

To maintain health and general tone, a set containing all the ingredients most useful for tea drinking can be an excellent gift option for your family and friends on such a day. What do you need most of all in the coming cold? That's right, something that will warm and help maintain health, and all this is in the beautifulset from Altai: a jar of honey, a packet of herbal Altai tea, which will help you to raise your overall vitality and charge you with healthy energy for a long time.

Taste of Altai set

Where can I buy:

4790 rubles

And one more option for a gift that helps so much in frosts and cold weather. As you know, when the room is cold, tea cools down very quickly until all guests or family members gather for dinner table, tea can simply become completely cold, and therefore tasteless. In order to preserve all the original properties of your favorite drink, present a wonderfulteapot with tealight holder... You can be sure that even if you are late for the invitation to the table, tea from your loved ones will keep you all fresh and give you warming warmth!

Teapot with a burner Home sweet Home

Where can I buy:

4950 rubles

What could be better than your attention, and no matter what the reason for this is needed. Now it is tea day, so why not take the chance to show attention and care to your family and friends and make this day a real holiday!

Vick Dee

Today, families with a real samovar are rarely found, but the Russian tradition of tea drinking is passed down from generation to generation. This is why gift wrapped tea can be considered a truly universal gift, which will open new facets of taste, color and aroma of tea even to avid coffee lovers.

Inexpensive gift set tea bags together with a mug can be presented to a colleague at work, and this will be a very useful and practical gift.

In general, gift sets of tea and / or coffee are gaining more and more popularity, as they are compiled by specialists in an excellent decorative design.

Online stores offer more than one original tea gift set. These sets often contain teas that we had no idea about, and thus it becomes possible to taste the famous in their countries of origin varieties tea - Chinese, Indian, Ceylon, etc.

Original gift set with tea and chocolate

How to choose an elite tea as a gift for a man?

Many men prefer coffee, but this choice can be explained by the fact that they simply did not taste the taste of real, high-quality tea. That is why an expensive tea set as a gift for a man will be very useful - elite varieties with great color, rich taste and delicate aroma will open to him not only tonic properties, but also all the beauty of this drink.

If a man is a tea lover, then you should carefully approach the choice and give him, depending on his preferences, the best black tea in gift wrapping or collectible green gift tea in an iron can. Tea should only be loose, and not in bags, which, according to experts, correlate with real tea in the same way as instant coffee with ground.

Collectible green gift tea in an iron jar

Assorted teas are also a good choice, but only the best varieties... Such tea can be purchased in tea boutiques, where it is packed in small bags made of thick paper with a window covered with a film, through which the composition of the tea, the size of the tea leaves, their color can be seen - all this can tell a lot to a tea connoisseur. Sometimes the package contains information about this particular variety.

V tea boutiques presents an incredible variety of the most famous varieties of tea, and you can present a unique gift: compose a set of ten varieties, each of which will be packed in paper bag, and attach to each such package your own description of the tea, information about which is easy to find on the Internet.

Usually, a legend is associated with each famous variety, this will also be interesting.

Print this information on small pieces of paper and attach them to each package in the form of a booklet or, better, rolled into a scroll and tied with a ribbon, like an old letter. It is better to present all this luxury in a beautifully packed box or basket, and be sure that your gift, and, most importantly, the attention that you showed when creating it, will be appreciated.

What tea to give a woman?

Women are known to be much more concerned about their health than men, and therefore often prefer green and herbal teas. V green tea more antioxidants, helping to maintain youth and health, and herbal teas are a real storehouse of vitamins and micro- and macroelements necessary for our body, so a set of herbal teas in a wooden package will be a wonderful gift.

Gift set in a wooden box

A gift set of Chinese teas should certainly include green tea. Attaching a description of each variety (see above) will add even more value to the gift. Great idea - a tea gift basket that you can decorate with natural or artificial flowers and herbs, bows, etc., and additionally put in the basket, a jar of honey, chocolates and / or sweets, to make your tea drinking even more pleasant. You can order such a gift set with honey and tea in the online store or make it yourself, but in any case such a gift will delight a woman.

If you want to present tea in an original way, then you can make a tea bouquet as a gift with your own hands. For this, tea bags are used in a package of foil.

The easiest way is to cut a circle out of cardboard and then cone it by removing one segment.

You can glue the circle around the edges with corrugated paper or lace, and then, starting from the outer edge, glue tea bags on it so that they slightly overlap and, like a serpentine, reached the center. Bags can be taken of the same type for each circle or different, combining them in color.

The center of the composition can be filled with a small bunch of sweets tied for the ends of candy wrappers... To decorate the bouquet, corrugated colored paper is used, with which it is wrapped from below and forms a leg; on top, the bouquet can be decorated with artificial flowers, berries and greens, ribbons, bows, small lace flowers, etc., and all this luxury can be wrapped in plastic so that the bouquet does not deform.

Such a tea composition looks unusually impressive and will remind you of your love and attention for a long time.

Tea Bouquet "Candy Clay"

How to beautifully pack tea as a gift with your own hands?

The options for presenting tea as a gift in an unusual package have already been described above. Even the most expensive gift teas in tin cans need beautiful packaging so that the gift does not look like it was purchased on hastily... Making tea in gift wrapping is a sign of the giver's special attention, and if you don't have enough time or imagination to do it yourself, trust the professionals- in a special department, you will be effectively wrapped and decorated with a gift.

Gift tea decoration

Elite varieties of tea can be purchased in a tin or in a ceramic jar, sometimes it is packed in wooden boxes, but never in plastic bags, such packaging is suitable only for ordinary varieties.

An excellent choice would be a tea composition, that is, a set of several elite varieties of tea, both black and green, so that you can compare their taste and aromatic bouquet... Some believe that black tea is stronger and better tonic than green tea, but this is a deep misconception, apparently due to the more intense color of black tea infusion compared to green tea, usually of a light greenish-yellow color.

In fact, green tea has a powerful tonic effect, not to mention more antioxidants in its composition

You just need to get used to and taste delicate taste and the invigorating scent of meadow grasses. It is not uncommon to find green tea flavored with jasmine or tropical fruits, which makes its taste even more interesting.

Pack tea as a gift do it yourself not difficult. A small wicker basket is best suited for this, in which you can place tin and ceramic cans, and between them - small chocolates, candies and other sweets. The handle of the basket can be intertwined with a sprig of artificial greenery with berries, and the composition itself can be decorated with artificial flowers, lace flowers, etc.

What else can you give a tea lover?

A great addition to any tea gift will become a tea pair or mug with a name or a wish to the one to whom it is presented. Such inscriptions are easy to order today, many companies are engaged in the manufacture of such souvenirs, so you will only have to choose the graphic design and text.

Tea souvenirs will also look very cute:

• tea d omik for tea bags;

Tea bag house

• Cup with a patterned metal cup holder, which were previously used everywhere, but now they have passed into the category of rarities;
• original custard teapot;
• panel with the image of traditional Russian tea drinking;
• hot-water bottle on a kettle, which is easy to make with your own hands, using a small doll and bright scraps of fabric; such a woman will also become a wonderful piece of kitchen decor;
• small ceramic figurines or wooden figurines of the corresponding theme.

But aerobatics is to present a tea ceremony to a real connoisseur and lover of tea.

The traditions of the Chinese tea ceremony have a thousand-year history, it full of deep philosophical meaning and goes far beyond simple tea drinking. It requires a strictly defined set of accessories, including:

• tea table with holes where water is drained;
• special capacity for storing tea;
• box, into which dry tea is poured so that guests can appreciate it appearance and aroma;
• a cup with a lid for brewing tea for one person;
• clay teapots(separately for black and green tea, teapots made of Yixing clay are considered the best), in which tea is brewed for several persons;
• special cup, into which tea is poured to evaluate its aroma and color.
• "Cup of justice" from which brewed tea is poured so that all guests have it of the same strength;
• kettle in which water is boiled;
• low cups, similar to bowls from which tea is drunk;
• the same bowl but with a saucer.

Yixing clay teapots

(We do not give the names of the accessories in Chinese, as they are unlikely to say anything to non-specialists). At the same time it is worth giving and video real chinese tea ceremony in compliance with all the rules of etiquette. It will take a long time to complete, but it will be worth it.

Gather a group of friends, explain to them the philosophical essence of the Chinese tea ceremony, and you can be sure that for everyone present it will become an unforgettable event, because tea is not just a drink; it is vital energy and real pleasure if you drink it not on the go, but, as they say, with feeling, with sense, with consistency. Enjoy your tea!

You will learn how to make a tea bouquet with your own hands by watching the video:

November 28, 2018 4:28 pm

It is difficult today to find a person who does not drink tea, but for many people it is more than just a drink - it is a whole culture of consumption associated with it. Surely among your friends, colleagues or relatives there is his devoted admirer. It is logical that on a professional holiday, Birthday, you will want to please him with an exquisite present associated with his hobby. But what to give a tea lover? Thanks to the centuries-old culture of its use, you have many options.

Elite tea. A true tea connoisseur knows that packaged or loose infusions sold in ordinary stores are just a faint resemblance of this drink, which cannot be compared with it in their taste... Therefore, an excellent gift will be a present in the form of elite tea. And if the taste of oolong (oolong) or pu-erh is probably already familiar to every lover of this drink, then you can surprise it with unique “opening” varieties, which, when brewed, form flower compositions that are stunning in their beauty. You can also pick up a truly exotic tea for your friend - for example, Japanese gemmaicha, which is fried and mixed with brown rice during preparation, or the very rare and expensive Chinese "Big Red Robe" (Da Hong Pao).

Teapot. Of course, every tea lover already has this piece of tea ware, however, you can gift him this piece of pottery. Before that, it is advisable to study what kind of tea your friend is using:

• for green and white teas, it is better to use a teapot made of fired ceramics;
• black and red varieties are best brewed in porcelain or earthenware.

If your friend often drinks tea alone, it makes sense to give him not a kettle, but a gaiwan - a small ceramic bowl with a lid, in which you can brew a drink for 1 person. This option would be preferable, since brewing one portion of tea in a large teapot is impractical.

A cup with a strainer. Many tea lovers appreciate the drink itself, but are rather indifferent to the culture of its use. Such people can safely drink the expensive elite variety in the office during their lunch break. However, for sure, they also will not give up a small and practical cup with a lid and an original tea strainer, for example, in the form of a diver, shark fin, submarine, etc.

Stands. It is known that a cup of hot tea can damage the lacquered surface of furniture, so an original decorated stand made of bamboo or wood will be a very practical and necessary gift. If your friend, a tea lover, often arranges a group tea party, it makes sense to present him a chaban - a wooden Chinese tray for tea ceremonies, which will be not only a useful accessory, but also a decorative item.

Tea ceremony certificate. Surely every lover of Japanese or Chinese tea wishes to personally participate in this magnificent ritual. The tea ceremony is the quintessence of the culture of drinking this drink, giving a real aesthetic pleasure. If you want to give your friend a lot of vivid impressions, then the appropriate certificate will be the best solution.

Where to find beautiful and quality gifts for tea lovers? Pay attention to the La Caffee online store. In its assortment you can find not only various, including exotic, varieties of this drink from China, India, Japan and other countries, but also aesthetic accessories that will make their use especially wonderful.