Sydney festival reveals Australia's budding specialty tea scene
The tea chain T2 may be Australia's most famous tea export in recent years, but Sydney's third annual tea festival hopes to give a glimpse of "an amazing explosion" of specialty tea companies down under. The event will host 75 companies, almost double the amount from the inaugural show, and expects more than 10,000 visitors to attend a display of emerging tea companies and concepts. Among them will be The Husk Mill, that specialize in locally grown cacao-husk teas, and Matcha.lab, creators of a new ginger-matcha blend. Several workshops will also showcase chai teas, tea-leaf reading, tea-related art and modern matcha ceremony. The Sydney Tea Festival takes place on Sunday, August 21.