Malawi: Satemwa Tea Estate – Tea Tasting
Tea tasting is actually a lot like wine tasting – you get to try a lot of varieties, you learn a lot about how they are made and what makes each type of tea special, you don’t really drink all this tea but rather taste it and spit excess out. At Saremwa Tea tasting room located at the tea factory, you get to sample 14 teas – from whole leaf, to varieties made of tips and small leaf buds, to oolong, to green, to black, to white, to passion peach, to hibiscus, to mint. The really interesting one was the smoked tes, where the leaves are literally dried above burning wood to make them taste like smoke. An awesome experience that makes you for a second forget that you are in Malawi and not some place in China or England for high tea.
