Gregg Lyne ha scritto:
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>"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
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>Nigel,
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>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?
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>Thanks,
>Blues
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>Blues,

99.9% of Malawi teas are black CTC style teas going into belnds for tea bags (60% of the crop goes to the UK and South Africa). Satemwa (www.satemwa.com) is the only estate producing specilty teas - white, green, black and we are currently now also experimenting with some Oolongs.

regards,
Alexander

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