I visited my first tea field in Hunan province, an organic field of about 100 acres in the mountains about 3000 feet up, took five hours drive to get there but was well worth the bumpy ride. The pickers were going flat out at it . I was given some tea to taste on arrival which was out of this world, very lush sweet young tatsing leaf straight out of the factory. I had a nice tour of the factory which was incredibly clean and modern. There were people working from the age of
20 to 83 years old. I must have had about 15 glasses of tea before they sat me down for a traditional chinese lunch whith all organic veggies. Unfortunately the wine they kept feeding me killed my ability to tatse the tea after wards but to make up for this they gave me a nice bag of tea to take with . If any one wants pictures on how tea is picked steamed rolled processed just let me know and I will email them to you ,I will be in Fujian in a few days time. Maurice- posted
17 years ago