(Ripon) wrote in message . com...
"The only American classic tea produced 20 miles south
Charleston,South Carolina-deep in the SC lowcountry, on the
subtropical sea island of Wadmalaw. American classic tea has been
official White House tea since 1987 and is officialy designated as the
hospitality beverage of SC."

Very interesting, Anyone has tried "American classic tea". Would love
to know how is the taste.

Ripon
(From Bangladesh)

Good to see this thread alive again after it started some three years
ago! In the meantime the two co-owners split up their partnership and
the Wadmalaw plantation went fallow for a season (2002), with bushes
and weeds growing wild. This year, former co-owner Bill Hall and
Bigelow Tea successfully acquired the plantation and the business and
rehabilitation commenced.

Happy to say that the new owners are using Teacraft consultancy for
technical input on getting their bushes back into shape - using some
of the marginal tea area husbandry that we developed in Pakistan (see
this thread message No. 2). Some of the unique Charleston tea has
been manufactured again this year.

Incidentally some of the the tea cuttings we imported into Pakistan
from Charleston via a greenhouse plantation in UK have been
re-exported from Pakistan to Hawaii - but that's a different topic!

Nigel at Teacraft