Peterston TEA ESTATE
It certainly takes a good few years of hard work to produce Welsh tea! We have grown most of our tea plants from seed which is carefully sourced from a number of different areas, ex Soviet Georgia and Ilam in Nepal to name a couple. Each seed produces a unique plant so growing in this way gives us huge genetic variance and the best possible chance of establishing high quality plants that tolerate our climate. It also means our teas will be as nature intended, rich in diversity of flavour & aromas, always full of character but always changing - and completely unique!!
Some of our tea is growing under poly-tunnels and some on a south facing, slightly windswept hill, although in Wales this tends to mean a hillside regularly experiencing gale force winds and horizontal rain.