FARMING ROOIBOS
What makes Tanqua Single Estate Rooibos special?
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Our rooibos gardens are all above 2000ft elevation. The elevation at which a rooibos plant is growing influences almost every aspect of its development process; from aroma and flavor to nutritional value. Due to the high altitude and cooler climate Tanqua rooibos is slow growing and matures later than normal.
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Patience in allowing new growth to mature rewards our tea-master with ripeness of leaf from which a bouqet of rich and complex flavours can be extracted.
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Tanqua rooibos is slow matured and classy, with complexity of flavor and a soft sweet aftertaste.
Step 1 Mechanically scrubbed Rooibos seeds sowed in a shallow furrow in the Rooibos seedling nursery
Step 2 Rooibos seeds geminated. Seed rows protruding from sandy soil to start showing little green leaves
Step 12. Picking up the rooibos tea after being sundried on the tea court.
Step 1 Mechanically scrubbed Rooibos seeds sowed in a shallow furrow in the Rooibos seedling nursery