The Jersey Tea Company began in 2016 and is owned and run by two couples, Katherine and Terry Boucher and Michelle and Cardin Pasturel. As well as working on the tea farm we also have other careers as health professionals (Psychologists and Chiropractor) and in the finance industry. We started The Jersey Tea Company because we wanted to be involved in working with the land (in particular thinking about regenerative farming and biodiversity) and doing something different to our “day jobs”. One of us heard on Radio 4 about teas being grown in Scotland and remembered that Jersey has a history with tea, with the Oversea Trading Corporation being an important trader in tea. We then researched whether it would be possible it would be to grow tea in Jersey (looking at average annual rainfall; soil quality; sunshine hours etc.) and discovered that this could be something that worked! So, we started experimenting with tea plants in our garden, and progressed to having two fields and a nursery of tea plants.
This organic black tea is full of flavour with no bitterness but a sweet richness and light astringency. The leaves are dark and twisted, and when they unravel in the water a sweet vegetal aroma is evoked. As a small, single-estate organic grower, we have only a limited supply of premium leaf for our black tea production. This is the first batch of our 2025 season handcrafted Spring Black Tea.
