you might not expect to find a tea
plantation in europe but there is
actually one off the coast of portugal
in the middle of the atlantic ocean
goriana is set on three floors on the
first floor there is a wilton room it's
a warm room where the leaves stay for 12
hours to let the water evaporate and the
leaves soften to make black tea leaves
fall in this cylinder to be rolled on
the ground floor of the factory rolling
releases the juices of the leaves the
step that follows is oxidation which
happens in the basement of the factory
leaves richard by going through this
other machine with a net the net has
different sized holes to start dividing
leaves into the three grades of black
tea orange pico pico or broken leaf
oxidation is a natural process that
occurs after the leaves are exposed to
the air this contributes to the aroma of
the tea the next phase is drying and
then separating the leaves the machines
may never stop working but the final
check is always left to a human eye