THE RUSSIAN TEA PLANTATIONS AND A RUSSIAN TEA PARTY

In 1896 a delegation of Russians returned from its distant voyage to China . They brought 130 pounds of seeds of exquisite Chinese tea, which were planted in a Georgian settlement near Batumi . Only 5% of them proved to have germinating capacity, for the wily Chinese had obviously scalded the tea. However, five years later the first Russian plantation appeared in Sochi .


Nowadays Sochi is the northernmost case of commercial tea production in the world, the only area of tea farms in Russia , and tea is the theme of the best attraction and an exiting educational excursion in the area.