Tea Craft: for teahouses 17-24.8. 2025

What you make is yours to take.
We’ll dive into crafting our signature teas – unique black and white specials. We’ll show you how it’s done, and then it’s your turn to take the lead.

Program:

• 17.8. Welcome to Georgia! We will pick you up from the airport in Kutaisi around 2:30 PM. We’ll stop for a small snack on the way, and you will harvest your first tea leaves in the evening.

• 18.8. Rock and Roll - First Blacks! We will craft hand-processed black teas, experimenting with short-oxidized and long-fermented teas.

• 19.8. Dry and Try - A day dedicated to making white teas.

• 20.8. Short or long? We will talk a lot about oxidation.  

• 21.8. Yours! - It will be your turn to create what you want.  

• 22.8.Yours? Let’s see! We’ll take a look at how your teas turned out – and see if there’s room to make them even better.

• 23.8. Maillard reaction - Day for the finishing the tea! And discover baking! 

• 24.8. Goodbye, Georgia We’ll take you to the airport at 4 AM.

Note: The program may be subject to change due to external conditions (e.g., weather).

What does a typical tea day look like?

After breakfast, we’ll head to the factory to check the previous day’s production. One or two teas will be tested, of course. Then, we’ll move to the garden around 9 AM to harvest fresh leaves while enjoying a meditative experience. We’ll leave the leaves for withering in the factory around 12 PM.

For lunch, we’ll enjoy a fresh salad made with local vegetables from nearby farms around 1 PM. Afterward, we will process the leaves from the day before. If we finish around 2 PM, you’ll have a choice: enjoy drinking tea in the mountains or by the sea, or maybe craft more tea? The choice is yours.

In case of rain, we’ll shift to the mountains or seaside for relaxation. So, the program may change depending on the weather.

Accommodation:

Most nights will be spent at a hotel in Chokhatauri, about 15 minutes from the garden. The hotel offers rooms for 2 people (private bathrooms, air conditioning). We’ll also have a home stay at Ramiz’s tea producer house, and one night will be spent in a hotel in Bakhmaro.

Food:

You will discover local cuisine throughout your stay.

• Breakfast is classic European breakfast, or we will have breakfast at the hotel in Bakhmaro.
• Lunch will be a light salad with local vegetables and cheese, or we’ll bring a snack with us during the trek in Bakhmaro.
• Dinner will be a Georgian specialty, served in a local restaurant.

Group size: 4–7 people.

Location of the tea garden: Kvenobani, Chokhatauri, Georgia (X5MJ+8MX, Kvenobani, Georgia)

What we will provide:

• Workshop
• Tools
• Accommodation
• Local transport
• Food

What you will take home:

• Insights into tea production
• Hands-on experience
• At least 5 different teas that you have made

About Raptor Watching:

Learn more about raptor migration at the Batumi Raptor Count website:
https://www.batumiraptorcount.org/

About the Horse Race in Bakhmaro:

Learn more about the horse race in Bakhmaro:
https://georgia.travel/horse-race-in-bakhmaro

How to Book:

Please write me email: info (at) sicaj.cz . After registration, we will send you an email with instructions. A deposit of 400 euros (10,000 CZK) is required within 14 days of receiving the email. The deadline for the additional payment of 600 euros (15,000 CZK) is July 30, 2025.

• If you cancel within 45 days of the workshop, we will return 100% of the deposit.
• 7–44 days before the workshop, we will return 70% of the deposit.
• 0–6 days before the workshop, we will return 30% of the deposit.