Ezio Bonino’s shop is named after Camellia sinensis, the tea plant. Here you can buy tea and products associated with it but also tarke part in fascinating guided tastings following the advice of someone who has turned a special passion into a job. The tasting sessions are organised from 3pm to 6pm and are ideal for two: they embrace topics from the flavours of green tea to the tea-growing countries (Japan, India and China), to black teas and the colours of tea, including tastings of green tea from China, white tea from North Vietnam and black tea from India. In general, teas at Camellia are subdivided by country, and in summer some are served cold: hence Shizuoka matcha on the rocks, for example, or hot-extracted Sencha with ice, or the Cold Brew of the day, cold-extracted single varieties. One of the shop’s special treats is Da Hong Pao Zhengyan, one of the rock teas, or Yancha, produced in the Wuyi Mountains nature park in the north of Fujian.
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