Charleston Tea Plantation Opens 2007 Season with New Field Tour
For Immediate Release, February 2007http://www.charlestonteagardens.com
Charleston Tea Plantation Opens 2007 Season with New Field Tour
Bus tour offers up-close views of America's only working tea plantation
New for 2007 at the Charleston Tea Plantation is a narrated, air-conditioned bus tour that illustrates how tea is planted, grown, nurtured and harvested as visitors carefully make their way through the tranquil beauty and endless sea of green made possible by the farm's several hundred thousand historic tea bushes.
"Our new field tour is an intimate way for guests to learn about the unique horticultural aspects of Camellia Sinensis and to get an up-close, behind-the-scenes view of how tea is made from leaf to cup," said William B. Hall, partner, Charleston Tea Plantation.
"Since re-opening in 2006, more than 20,000 visitors have toured America's only tea plantation, and 2007 visits have nearly tripled with 70 percent of our guests taking the new bus tour," said David Bigelow, co-chair, Bigelow Tea. In addition to the field tour, guests can view how tea is processed in the factory featuring an air-conditioned window gallery overlooking the equipment that processes tea from harvested leaf to finished black tea.
The plantation is open Wednesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. and is located at 6617 Maybank Hwy., Wadmalaw Island, SC. For more information, please visit www.charlestonteagardens.com or call (843) 559-0383.
About Bigelow Tea Company
Based in Fairfield, Conn., Bigelow Tea Company has produced quality teas for more than 60 years. The company takes pride in its family heritage and its successful growth from a small, one product, entrepreneurial venture to one of the nation's leading specialty tea makers. The Bigelow tea line includes more than 70 varieties of flavored, traditional, green, organic green, herbal, decaffeinated, and iced teas -- including America's number one specialty tea flavor, "Constant CommentŪ."
In 2003, the company purchased and restored the Charleston Tea Plantation which produces American Classic Tea, a unique black tea with a mild tone and sweet flavor. As the only tea plantation in America, it cultivates several hundred thousand tea bushes that are descendants of bushes brought from China and India during the 1800's. Visitors can view the tea-making process from an air-conditioned, 125-foot window gallery demonstrating the tea manufacturing process from raw leaf to finished black tea.
For more information, please visit us at www.bigelowtea.com and www.charlestonteagardens.com.
