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World Service,3 mins

We invented our own tasting language for tea

The Food Chain

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Sebastian Michaelis is a master tea taster for Tetley tea, which is part of Tata Global Beverages. He explains to Emily Thomas how his company developed an in-house tasting language called Uhuru to faithfully capture the nuances of taste. (Picture: Sebastian Michaelis tasting tea, Credit: BBC)

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