At LIPTON, we have a team of fully trained Tea Tasters skilled in the art and science of tea. It is the role of the Tea Taster to make sure teas are blended perfectly to meet our standards of quality. They have cultivated their skill over the course of many years of training and experience. The senses of sight, touch, smell and taste are all important in judging teas. As you can imagine, tasters must have trained, sensitive taste buds and a keen sense of smell.

To taste tea, experts slurp it to the back of their throats to “atomize it,” allowing them to taste and smell simultaneously. Only a few seconds may be spent on any individual tea, since the taster has to evaluate several hundred samples a day. Tea experts have such finely tuned palates, they can determine the manufacturing method, quality and value of the tea (sometimes even the estate where it was grown) with one taste.

LIPTON. Tirelessly tasting to guarantee every cup tastes the way you like it.