Vietnamese Tea
April 19, 2010 | 
Author The Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in the United States of America hasn’t updated its Tea Production in Vietnam page for almost a decade. So here’s information from around the same time I was first experiencing a Vietnamese black tea made from leaves plucked from centuries old tea trees, which is what happens, I assume, when you let the bushes grow that old with insufficient pruning.
It did make for a very nice cuppa, as I remember.
The Viet Nam Tea Corporation maintained its high growth rate in 2000 for the fifth consecutive year with a total output of over 75,000 tons, 26,000 of which went for export. The goal for 2001 was to export 75-80% of total output. (This means that the output either had to almost double or the man on the street in Vietnam was going exclusively to coffee.)
In 2000, Vietnamese tea was being sold in 30 countries, with almost 50% of the total going to the Middle East.
This Middle East statistic has rekindled my interest in Vietnamese tea, as I’m sure those Sheikhs know what’s good.
Roland Petrov
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