Tea
grows the best in tropical climate from sea level to high
altitudes. - Quality tea is always plucked by hand, because
only the young upper two leaves with the bud is harvested
and the remaining growth is cut back. The tea plucker carries
up to 15kg immediately to the factory.
This harvested fresh tea is withered overnight and dried 60%.
Then it is either processed by a CTC machine (cut - tear -
curl) or by orthodox method - fired (dried) and sorted, blended
and packed.
CEYLON Tea from the SOFA Tea Gardens in the famous UVA HIGH GROWN tea region of Sri Lanka FAIRTRADE and ORGANIC certified Organized by 26 small farmer societies with a total of 1536 individual organic farmers.
Available: 250g, 1kg, 3kg leaf tea - 50 tea bags (from May 08)
Darjeeling Tea from Makaibari FAIRTRADE and ORGANIC certified
274 ha under tea cultivation, 610 tea workers. Fully orthodox tea, grown in high altitudes.
Available as, 100g, 1kg, 25 tea bags as Black Tea and Green Tea and 500 Black tea bags
Formosan
Green Tea
Available:
as packs of 25 tea bags
as packs of 250g leaf tea
as 10 tea bags of JASMIN and OOLONG
Tea
grows the best in tropical climate from sea level to high
altitudes. - Quality tea is always plucked by hand, because
only the young upper two leaves with the bud is harvested
and the remaining growth is cut back. The tea plucker carries
up to 15kg immediately to the factory.
