Teaplant

WE KNOW OUR TEA

TEA PLANT

Tea grows all around the world and typically in a belt around the equator. All types of tea are from the variety called Camellia Sinensis but within that there are two sub-varieties. One called Sinensis, so we have Camellia Sinensis, variety Sinensis, and Camelia Sinensis, variety Assamica. The Sinensis variety originates from China in the flat plain lands and the Assamica variety originates in the Himalaya regions of India and northern India.

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We developed the 1st major tea bag innovation for 50 years : the pyramid tea bag that delivers a faster, superior infusion.

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There are two main types of tea consumed in the world: firstly, green tea and black tea. Green tea is usually manufactured from the Sinensis type of tealeaf whereas black tea is normally manufactured from the Assamica type of tealeaf. Nearly all leaf teas are made using these two leaves and a bud that are plucked from the bush. But there’s a special type of tea called White Tea that actually just takes this fine, young shoot to make a very special kind of tea. For example, for a black tea process, we start off with fresh green leaves then there are 4 key steps to the manufacture: withering, cutting, then we ferment before we dry it to the product that you know. The key step here is the fermentation step and this is the critical part whereby we generate the colours and the flavours and that mouth-feel for a typical and high-quality black tea. For Green Tea, we have a slightly different process. Again we start with the fresh leaf but there are now only three key steps. We take that fresh leaf and then as soon as it comes into the factory we steam it, so we lock in all of that goodness and then it’s just simply cut and dried so we retain that fresh, green colour.

The production process for black tea
1. Withering
2. Cutting
3. Fermenting
4. Drying

The production process for green tea
1. Steaming
2. Cutting
3. Drying  

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