"Nigel" > wrote in message
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>I don't believe that any serious white tea producer can ever be
> anything but a niche player - to remove white tea from its niche
> status will destroy it. Millions of kilograms of "white tea" being
> sold inexpensively in tea bags and in mango flavored RTD says to me
> that they are using a different white tea to the sort I recognise as
> fitting the description.
> My Malawi whites are hand made and could not be sold at tea bag
> price. We are making them on one estate - Satemwa - the oldest estate
> in Malawi and in the same family ownership for three generations. It
> is ethically run and FairTrade. It was first planted up in 1923 and
> is located in the Shire Highlands near Mt Thyolo and produces mainly
> black teas - the leaf is grown on the estate at around 3,000 feet in
> good clean air and extra leaf is bought in from small farmers. White
> teas and soon some Oolongs are a new venture - see
> http://www.satemwa.com/articles/White_Teas~3
>
> Nigel at Teacraft
>

Nigel,

Other than the white teas you've mentioned, the teas I've found from Malawi
are mostly billed as Malawi Orange Pekoe BOP. Upton does have a Chisunga
Estate BOP The main market appears to be blends for England and Ireland,
but are there any estates making orthodox black teas or green teas?

Thanks,
Blues