American Classic Tea

"The only American classic tea produced 20 miles south Charleston,South Carolina-deep in the SC lowcountry, on the subtropical sea island of Wadmalaw. American classic tea has been official White House tea since 1987 and is officialy designated as the hospitality beverage of SC."

Very interesting, Anyone has tried "American classic tea". Would love to know how is the taste.

Ripon (From Bangladesh)

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On 31 Oct 2003 12:17:55 -0800, snipped-for-privacy@dhaka.net (Ripon) tripped the light fantastic, then quipped:

Hi, Ripon. I live in South Carolina, and have tried this tea. It's a decent tea...better than Lipton, but it's not spectacularly special. I've only seen it sold in tea bags, and curiously enough, it's hard to find in stores here; the only place I've found it so far is in an airport gift shop...lol.

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Good to see this thread alive again after it started some three years ago! In the meantime the two co-owners split up their partnership and the Wadmalaw plantation went fallow for a season (2002), with bushes and weeds growing wild. This year, former co-owner Bill Hall and Bigelow Tea successfully acquired the plantation and the business and rehabilitation commenced.

Happy to say that the new owners are using Teacraft consultancy for technical input on getting their bushes back into shape - using some of the marginal tea area husbandry that we developed in Pakistan (see this thread message No. 2). Some of the unique Charleston tea has been manufactured again this year.

Incidentally some of the the tea cuttings we imported into Pakistan from Charleston via a greenhouse plantation in UK have been re-exported from Pakistan to Hawaii - but that's a different topic!

Nigel at Teacraft

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Nigel at Teacraft

You mean Bill Hall and mack Fleming split up? I got some information through one of my business collogue ( not tea related) from NC that This tea suppose to be available from summer 2003. Are you using the pakistani company "Tapal" for re-exporting to Hawaii?

I heard your company name before but didn't know you are Biigelow's official consultancy firm. I am writing a book about tea. may i contact you privately for some furthure information? Thank you very much for your resourceful post.

Ripon (From Bangladesh)

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Ripon

No, we are re-exporting cuttings not tea. These came from our long time client Unilever Pakistan (not Tapal) who now have 600 acres of tea in the ground in NWFP, under our guidance. We export cuttings all round the world to entrepreneurs who want to set up tea production under our advice. Mainly in "marginal countries" where we add value to offset lower yields and higher labour costs.

Good to know you are writing a book on tea - there is a great shortage of good written information about the technical side of tea. Please contact me any time on email snipped-for-privacy@teacraft.com Always happy to discuss tea.

Nigel at Teacraft

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