Westholme Tea Tasting Workshop

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SUITE 4 - 225 CANADA AVE I DOWNTOWN DUNCAN (250) 748-0251

Tea Tasting Workshop

Join us in the Westholme Tea Garden for this group Tea Tasting Workshop + educational experience steeped in nature.

Westholme is the first and only commercial tea grower in Canada although this is not all that we do. Planting tea began as an experiment. Growing tea has served to help us connect with all that goes into the tea craft around the world. Our Team is continuously amazed by this plant: an incredible range of complex flavours and stories come from this one species. It is the leaves of the one and only tea plant (Camellia sinensis) that create Black, White, Green, Yellow, Oolong and Puerh teas. Essentially, it is the processing methods that determine which type of tea the fresh leaves will become transformed into.

At our Tea Tasting Workshop we will explore three very different Limited Harvest pure teas, sourced from soils where they have been cultivated for thousands of years. As we taste these rare teas grown on small gardens around the world, we will explore different steeping methods for high quality teas – from simple and reliable basics to more advanced practices. We will turn to the tea plants on our slopes to discover the anatomy of a tea plant and gain perspective on how tea changes from its living form to the dried leaves you know and love. It is our hope that this experience will broaden understandings of all that tea can be as we glimpse what makes the world of tea so unique and why the tea plant is revered in many different cultures around the world.

You can expect to walk away with an understanding of some of the jargon often associated with tea and learn to discern what types of tea may best suit your palate and your lifestyle. Pairing of light tea-infused sweets handcrafted in the Valley is included.

Each tasting begins at 2:30pm and will run until approximately 3:45pm. We can accommodate up to eight guests per workshop. We ask that all Tastings be prebooked in advance. We are looking forward to savouring these steeps with our tea community! $40/person. Westholme Tea Co. 8350 Richards Trail, Duncan www.westholmetea.com

Alicia Fall. Writer at Westholme Tea Company, Community Gardener and Tea Ceremonialist