At Thompson's Teas we are a little bit crazy about quality. It's what we believe has allowed us to succeed as a family business across 4 generations and over 120 years.
When it comes to plucking the tea leaf, we insist on fine manual plucking. This means hand picking every tea leaf that makes it into any one of our blends.
The other options include plucking with shears which is less discriminating, or plucking with large machines resembling hedge trimmers.
Plucking as we do by hand, is much more selective, is more gentle in the process, and ensures we select only the good leaf and discard the bad.
When watching this short clip, remember that to make just one pack of Thompson's Tea, it takes 1 kilo of green tea leaf!
