TEA Zomba Pearls

Story How to Experience Ingredients Malawi’s tea industry dates to 1907 when the government of the country, which was then called the Nyasaland Protectorate, began issuing land grants to would-be farmers and planters.  Amongst the new rubber and eucalyptus plantations, tea plantations sprung up on the rolling slopes of Thyolo Mountain, north of Blantyre, in the country’s southern district.  Planters found the mountain’s climate and high altitude to be highly suitable to growing a very sturdy bush without pesticides. Although the conditions to grow truly exceptional teas were there right from the beginning, for much of Malawi’s hundred-plus years of tea history, crops in the county were typically bulk shipped to be blended for supermarket grade teabags.  In recent years however, there has been something of a renaissance in Malawian tea with outstanding examples of self-drinking estate teas gaining accolades from around the tea world.  This renaissance is thanks in part to planters l