Gabriella Lombardi

Gabriella Lombardi is an Italian tea sommelier from Milan who opened Chà Tea Atelier, the first tea shop in Milan specializing in quality tea, in 2010. She attended university in Granada, Spain, where she discovered tea rituals, and later authored the book Tea Sommelier with photographer Fabio Petroni and chef Giovanni Ruggieri. Lombardi regularly travels to China to deepen her expertise in tea making and the cultures of tea origin.