This National Tea Day weekend (Sunday 22nd April) join us at the Chelsea Physic Garden for an exclusive, one-off JING Tea Masterclass with our tea consultant Kat Piotrowski - there will be a morning or afternoon session to choose from. Discover a whole new world of tea, steeped in the history and beautiful surroundings of London's oldest botanical physic garden.
TEA MASTERCLASS
Discover a whole new world of tea
An opportunity to meet our expert tea consultant, Kat Piotrowski, and discover a whole new world of tea with her; talking about and tasting the finest examples of their loose leaf teas, as well as learning how to master the art of making tea. You will leave the masterclass with a deeper understanding of tea, as well as a curated set of teas and tools to help you start your new tea journey.
DETAILS
JING Tea Masterclass, Chelsea Physic Gardens 11:30am -1pm
JING Tea Masterclass, Chelsea Physic Gardens 2:00 - 3:30pm
£38 per person (including Garden entry, all materials and a curated set of teas and tools (worth £30))
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CHELSEA PHYSIC GARDEN
Since 1673 Chelsea Physic Garden has occupied four acres of land on the edge of the Thames. First established by the Apothecaries in order to grow medicinal plants, this extraordinary garden in London has had wide reaching impact around the world.
Robert Fortune was a Scottish Botanist and a curator at the Chelsea Physic Garden in the 1800s. He was also known as ‘the tea thief’ – responsible for the secret shipping of Camellia Sinensis (tea) seedlings from China to India via a ‘Wardian’ suitcase (pictured below). He was ultimately responsible for establishing the booming trade in India for black tea as a result of this: the invention of the ‘British Cuppa’. Until then, tea had come exclusively from China, its true home. An example of a Wardian suitcase can be found in the grounds of the Chelsea Physic Garden today.
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“You will leave never quite looking at - or tasting - tea in the same way again”
Choose from a morning or afternoon session with JING. The garden is located a 15-minute walk from Sloane Square, or via London Bus Routes, with plenty to do in nearby Chelsea.
£38 per person (including Garden entry, all materials and a curated set of teas and tools (worth £30))
