🍃 Begin your journey into the world of tea, where Guria’s humid subtropical climate, lush green plantations, Georgian tea history, and tea-making traditions come together in one place. The Anaseuli Tea Tour in Guria is a wonderful opportunity to discover the history of Georgian tea in an environment where tea has been cultivated, researched, and processed for decades.
🕐 The 90-minute Anaseuli Tea Tour includes: a walk through the tea plantation, a visit to the experimental tea factory, tea tasting, and an introduction to the history of tea, all set against the landscapes of the Anaseuli Tea Institute and its surrounding dendrological park, where you can take great photos and videos.
👣 1. Walk through the tea plantations: Walk among the green rows of tea plants, observe the tea bushes up close, and take beautiful photos. If your visit coincides with the tea-picking season, you may even have the opportunity to pick young tea leaves yourself and begin the journey from leaf to cup.
🌱 2. The History of Georgian Tea: Learn how tea cultivation and production developed in Georgia, how Guria became one of the country’s main tea-producing regions and what role the Anaseuli Experimental Tea Factory has played in this story since 1935 years to the present day.
🏭 3. At the Anaseuli Experimental Tea Factory, you will see traditional and modern tea-processing equipment, a tea research laboratory, as well as historic buildings, park landscapes, and photographic materials from the Soviet era. You will also learn about the main stages of tea processing and discover how leaves from the same plant can develop different flavors, colors, and characteristics depending on the processing technology used.
🍵 4. Tea Tasting & Tea Culture: Enjoy a tea-tasting session guided by a local expert, where you can taste different types of tea and learn about tea-processing techniques. It is an experience where place, time, climate, leaf, and human craftsmanship come together in a single cup.
📍 Location and Duration: The Anaseuli Tea Tour is located in Anaseuli (Ozurgeti Municipality, Guria, Georgia) and this tea tour usually lasts approximately 1.5–2 hours, which depends on the season, group size or any additional activities.
🗺️ Recommendations: In the surrounding area, you can visit the Anaseuli Tea Institute, Green Gold company, Komli tea plantations, Natura Tea Company, Gomismta, the coastal towns of Ureki and Shekvetili, Tsitsinatela park or Shekvetili Dendrological Park.
