The best flavors often come from things that were never meant to go together. Tea pairings for history’s campaigns, soldiers and hunters, and the true stories behind them.
A Cossack was the first Russian to describe tea, yet most Cossacks drank wine and vodka. Russian soldiers wanted tea, and whether the army ever gave it to them is still debated.
Vodka was the Russian soldier’s ration. Tea was what he wanted.
A warrior, a samovar, and the strong tea that goes with both.
The Cossacks mostly drank wine. Today their old lands grow Russia’s own tea.