Melbourne Tea Festival 2017

Overview

Is there anything better than a simple cup of tea? If leaves rather than beans comprise your preferred kind of hot beverage, you'll know its pleasures: smelling the wafting aroma, feeling the heat radiating from your cup and tasting the hearty flavour. Most tea-lovers experience all of that several times a day; however, expect to do so a few times more on May 20 — it's Melbourne Tea Festival time.

Returning for 2017, this celebration of specialty loose-leaf tea boasts two main components: a workshop program that'll teach you about everything from Indigenous sun tea ceremonies to blending your own brews, and a tea market. At the latter, you'll wander around Melbourne Exhibition Centre with your porcelain tasting cup in hand — it's included with every ticket — and sip your way through dozens of stalls.

Experience the flavours of artisan teas from all around the world; pick up some homemade tea pots, cups and other wares; or grab something edible from an array of food trucks. Whatever you spend the day doing, one thing is certain: you'll always have your favourite warm bev on hand.