NEPALI TEA EXTRA

4 live webinars, each lasting 3 hours.

Explore Nepali teas in depth and taste a wide range of categories and types of tea from this relatively young tea growing region. The classes are taught by Nepali Tea Master Chandra Bhushan Subba, Nepal’s leading tea expert who has more experience and expertise than anyone else working in the tea industry of Nepal.

This course contributes one credit toward the Level Three Tea Diploma but is open to all, regardless of previous experience or study with the UK Tea Academy. For more details about the Tea Diploma qualification, please see this page or email info@ukteaacademy.com

LIVE WEBINARS
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Four live webinars with Nepali Tea Master Chandra Bhushan Subba. The selection of teas from Nepal that you will taste include white, green, oolong, black, and dark teas. The course contributes one credit towards the Level 3 Tea Diploma.

International Postage £30
Restrictions apply, please click the ‘Non-UK’ button at the side of this page for more info

“Bhushan has been central to the whole industry in Nepal and its recent development and expansion into speciality teas; it is a privilege to be able to learn directly from him. As the world is slowly discovering Nepali tea, it is great to get this insight and access to some of the diverse and delicious teas that I hope will become better known to all tea enthusiasts.” – Robert, January 2024

WHO IS IT FOR?

This course is ideal for anyone interested in discovering, or furthering their knowledge of Nepali Teas.

Completion of this masterclass will count as one credit towards the Level 3 Tea Diploma.

Our online masterclasses are open to anyone. If you are aiming for a final Level Three qualification but you have not yet achieved your Level Two Tea Sommelier qualification, you will receive one module credit that can be carried forward.

WHAT DOES IT COVER?

Nepali teas do not all fall into specific seasonal flushes as do most teas from Darjeeling and Assam in north east India. Over the past few years, Nepali tea makers have been experimenting with freshly harvested leaves to make unusual speciality White, Green, Oolong, Black and even fermented dark teas. They have been guided and supported by Chandra Bhushan who has been instrumental in encouraging the development of the Nepali tea industry. So, in these webinars, rather than focus on teas made in particular seasons, we will explore different categories and taste a wide selection of teas made throughout the growing season from mid March to the end of Autumn. The course aims to give students a full understanding about how Nepali tea producers are expanding their tea offering by adapting their skills to produce unusual, high quality teas that deliver wonderful, unexpected flavour profiles in all the categories they now make.

Over £100 worth of carefully selected teas are included in your course price and will be mailed to you before the course begins.

WEBINAR 1
INTRODUCTION TO THE NEPALI TEA INDUSTRY

• The history of tea in Nepal
• Growing Regions and types of tea
• The Nepalese Tea Industry Today
• Prospects and Challenges
• Tea Organizations
• Nepalese Tea Types and Introductory Tea Tasting

WEBINAR 2
EXPLANATION AND TASTING OF BLACK TEAS

• Harvesting of required leaf
• Details of processing method
• Specific details about each of the selection of Black teas
• Tasting and comparing the different teas

WEBINAR 3
EXPLANATION AND TASTING OF GREEN TEAS

• Harvesting of required leaf
• Details of processing method
• Specific details about each of the selection of Green teas
• Tasting and comparing the different teas 

WEBINAR 4
EXPLANATION AND TASTING OF WHITE & DARK TEAS

• Harvesting of required leaf
• Details of processing method
• Specific details about each of the selection of White and Dark teas
• Tasting and comparing the different teas

WHAT WILL I NEED?

1. Your computer to access the webinars via Zoom and online resources.

2. Kettle, filtered water, and some necessary teaware items
For brewing the teas, you will need some teaware items. A list of recommended equipment will be sent upon booking, to help you prepare for the course.

ABOUT THE TUTOR

Chandra Bhushan Subba was born in the heart of Nepal’s main tea growing region and grew up in Sikkim and Darjeeling. After studying at the Department of Tea Husbandry and Technology in India, he specialised increasingly in the management of complex tea industry projects and their stakeholders at national and international levels.

For more than 3 decades, he has worked hand in hand with small tea growers, tea masters, tea labour and stakeholder farmers, manufacturers, importers and exporters, local and international tea traders, importer distributers, auctioneers, corporate houses, government bodies and private associations, councils, federations, NGOs and INGOs etc., involved in the tea industry.

Bhushan’s cosmopolitan background and analytical interests in tea cultivation, production and market movements, together with a solid background in technical knowledge of tea production and the art of making, tea tasting and blending, tea marketing, trading including exports and imports have put him at the forefront of the Nepali tea industry

FURTHER TRAINING

If you wish to continue studying for your Tea Diploma, you will need to take further courses at this level and you must have already completed both Level One and Level Two before the final qualification can be awarded.