MALAWI
Following its success at World Tea Expo in Long Beach in May this year, with its orthodox specialty teas, Satemwa Tea Estates, a small family-owned estate in the Shire Highlands, has set up a small tea stock in New Jersey. This means that both large and small American and Canadian customers can now order the company’s specialty teas without having to worry about import paperwork and long transport times. It allows direct trade with the estate but the teas are delivered in a couple of days within the US. The stock is still small but Satemwa is building up the range based on what America customers are saying and ordering. As well as its traditional black teas, the company also makes ‘White Antler’ tea using just the stalks, a white ‘Broken Silver Peony’, hand-rolled white ‘Zomba Pearls’, and ‘Bvumbwe Hand Made Treasure’, a lightly oxidized black tea. Satemwa is also working in close collaboration with Msuwadzi Smallholders, a group of 200 enthusiastic tea farmers who are willing to produce and add value to their green leaf. Satemwa will help them get some exclusive high quality smallholder tea into the market and the final product is expected to appear in mid-2015. Learn more: www.satemwa.com