How This Master Tea Taster--Whose Tongue Is Insured For £1 Million--Found His Calling

His taste buds are insured for more than both of Rihanna's legs and on par with one of Madonna's boobs, depending on the exchange rate.

It takes Tetley master blender Sebastian Michaelis more than four months of work to make a single bag of tea. The process involves leaping continents, driving all day on bumpy dirt roads, dealing with seaport strikes, battling buyers at auction houses, delivery trucks sliding off highways, speaking a made-up tea language called "Uhuru," and enduring weather phenomena that can be so extreme that insurance companies call them "acts of God."

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