Modern Black Tea Tasting Experience | KTeaShop Zurich
You drink black tea every day. You have never really tasted it.
Five countries. Five black teas. Sri Lanka, India, Korea, China, Taiwan. Sixty minutes. The kind of tasting that changes how you see every cup after.
Book Your SeatBlack tea is the most popular tea in the world. Most people have only tasted one version of it.
The bag in the office. The same brand for ten years. Five countries produce black tea with completely different characters. Sri Lanka is bright and citrusy. India is malty and bold. Korea is honeyed and rare. China is sweet and golden. Taiwan tastes like cinnamon. This class puts all five on one table.
Five Countries. One Table.
This is a 60-minute guided tasting of five black teas from five countries. Sri Lanka, India, Korea, China, Taiwan. Same plant, same leaf colour in the cup, completely different worlds of flavour.
You learn why Ceylon highland tea is bright and citrusy while Assam is malty and bold. Why Korean black tea is almost unknown outside Asia. Why a Taiwanese black tea from Sun Moon Lake tastes like honey and cinnamon. Why Yunnan Dian Hong from ancient trees has a sweetness that no other black tea can match.
This is not a lecture. It is a small table, real teas from real origins, and the kind of conversation that makes you rethink everything you thought you knew about black tea.
See What the Experience Looks Like.
Five Countries. Five Black Teas.
Same leaf. Different hands. Different mountains. Different centuries of tradition.
Not Just Tasting. Understanding.
You leave with knowledge you can use the same evening. Not theory. Practical understanding of tea.
Five Origins, One Leaf
Why the same Camellia sinensis plant produces completely different black teas in Sri Lanka, India, Korea, China, and Taiwan.
Processing and Oxidation
How full oxidation creates black tea and why each country's processing tradition produces a different character.
Terroir and Altitude
How elevation, soil, and climate shape every cup. Why highland Ceylon at 1,200m tastes nothing like lowland Assam.
Tasting with Intention
How to evaluate aroma, colour, body, and finish across five cups. How to recognise quality beyond "it is nice."
Brewing for Your Kitchen
Water temperature, steep time, leaf-to-water ratio for all five teas. You leave knowing how to brew each one at home.
The Hidden World of Black Tea
Korean teas Europeans have never heard of. Taiwanese cultivars that taste like cinnamon. The world beyond English Breakfast.
Everything for the Experience.
5 Guided Tastings
Five black teas from five countries — Sri Lanka, India, Korea, China, and Taiwan. Each brewed and guided step by step.
Black Tea Process
Understand how black tea is made — from leaf to cup. Oxidation, rolling, and drying explained through what you taste.
Quality Levels
Learn to recognise different levels of black tea quality. By the end, you will know what separates an everyday tea from something exceptional.
I thought black tea was black tea. One kind. One taste. Sixty minutes later, I understood that I had been drinking the same note my entire life while an entire orchestra existed.
Guided by Shane.
Every session is led by Shane, the founder of KTeaShop and a certified tea sommelier based in Zurich. This is not a performance. It is a conversation at a small table, with real tea, and the stories behind every cup.
Shane has spent years sourcing teas directly from Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and India. He trained in traditional tea preparation and holds a deep understanding of how origin, process, and craft shape what ends up in your cup.
The classes exist because he believes everyone deserves to taste tea the way it was meant to be experienced. Not from a bag. Not from a brand. From the source.
- + Certified Tea Sommelier and Tea Master
- + Founder, KTeaShop Zurich
- + Direct sourcing from 6 countries
- + Small groups only. Maximum 4 guests per session.
Shane at KTeaShop
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Before You Book.
Book Your Seat.
Small groups fill quickly. Pick a date and show up curious. You will leave knowing tea.
Weekday evenings and weekend afternoons. Max 4 guests per session. 60 minutes.