Rooibos is grown exclusively in Cedarberg of South Africa Preview.

          Superior quality control is emphasized throughout the manufacturing process of Rooibos Tea. From planting to harvesting to final delivery of the finished product, the most stringent controls monitor every stage of production to ensure our customers get the purest, highest quality of Rooibos Tea.

1) Rooibos Tea is unique to South African and found only in Western Cape's Cedarberg area. 

3) From February to March, the seeds are sown in seed-beds. After germination, seed-lobes appear, followed by needle-like leaves. In June and July, the 10-20 cm height plants are planted in rows in plantations and looked after very carefully.           

4) Seeds can also be sown directly in plantations. The plant is pruned 18 months later. Therefore, it's harvested annually, when branches are cut off 35 cm from the ground.

5) The cutting are bound in sheaves and sent to the processing slabs. Every 5 years, plantations are re-established.                

6) A cutting machines cut the sheaves into lengths of 5mm, a pre-requisite for packing.

7) After airing, the tea is left in heaps of 15-20 cm height to ferment, when oxygen makes the tannin react with the enzymes, creating heat and moisture. Temperature is maintained at 30-35^°C.                

8) After about 8 hours, the tea chanages from green to red-brown, developing a distinctive sweet flavour. It is then spread out on concrete slabs to dry in the sun.

9) The dry tea is then sucked up by special suction machines. It is then delivered to Rooibos Tea Natural Products Limited as a mixture of twigs, pulverised tea and pure tea.                

10) The tea is sorted according to length, colour, flavour and taste into different quality grades of Super, Choice and Standard and then pooled.

11) The tea is sifted by a special machine, leaving behind only pure tea which is then continuously mixed in special silos to ensure uniform quality.               

12) The tea purified by steam pasteurization and dried by running over a hot air bed dryer.

13) The tea is packed in 20kg and 35kg woven polypropylene bags after weighing in automatic scales.              

14) The tea is then delivered to various international packers.