Nigel ha scritto:
>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
>
>
>On Apr 12, 1:52 pm, "pgwk" > wrote:
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>> How many estates are producing these whites and at what elevations and
>> in what quantities? Is there enough momentum and scale for them to
>> become a serious player in the great teas market or are they just
>> small niche producers?
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>>Only one estate; www.satemwa.com is producing these whites. Much work has gone into finding suitable varities, times of year and production methods and the result is a truly unique range of white teas. The elevation at Satemwa goes up to 4,200ft making it the higest grown tea in Malawi. As Nigel has said, Satemwa will always be a small niche producer - aiming at producing a quality product. Some of Satemwa's most exciting white teas come from varieties of which we have less than 200 trees - these tea trees ahve been bred in Malawi and are therefore unique to this region. There is now alot of white tea around. I am currenlty in the UK and bought some in tea bags off the supermarket shelf - yuk it was. This is not the way Satemwa will be going.
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