It was in China, during the Song Dynasty (960-1279), that a tea-based alcohol appeared for the first time. Its inventor, the poet Su Dongpo, was a brilliant polymath: painter, judge, philosopher, calligrapher, governor, magistrate, tutor to the future emperor Zhezong, and... for his personal consumption, a tea distiller. Unfortunately, the recipe was lost over time until the creation of Song Cha in the 21st century.