High-grown tea,From the Shores of Lake Kivu
Single Estate Rwandan Tea
Welcome to Karongi Tea Factory
Karongi Tea Factory sits in Karongi District, Western Province. Its 465 ha of nucleus tea farms stretch across 4 sectors — Muko, Rwariro, Nyabahanga, Kinyami.
Rwanda's
Finest teas
From garden to cup, for everyone in tea
Importers & Packers
Source graded CTC, Orthodox, Green and White leaf with full lot traceability, ready for blending or private label.
Retailers & Café Buyers
Stock verified, high-grade single-estate tea with the grade sheet and story to back it up.
Tour Operators & Hospitality
Bring guests to walk the fields and see processing firsthand, from plucking to the factory floor.
Distributors & Exporters
Partner with us for consistent volume, export-ready documentation and the widest grade range of any single estate in Rwanda.
Eight moments.
One journey.
Walk through the fields, meet the people behind the leaves and discover how Rwanda's high-grown tea travels from the garden to your cup.
Plan your experience
Walk through
The Plantations.
Follow the rows of tea across Rwanda's green highlands.
Pluck your
Own Tea.
Enter the
Tea Factory.
Follow the
Production Process.
See how fresh leaves become finished Rwandan tea.
Discover the
Tea Profiles.
Brew the
Perfect Cup.
Sample the
Different Grades.
Pack your
Own Tea.
From hillside to cup,
Every leaf tells a story
Green leaf weighed in at the factory gate
Every delivery from our outgrower network and estate fields is weighed at the weighbridge and logged against the farmer's plot number before it ever reaches the withering troughs.
- Field officers check for two-leaves-and-a-bud before acceptance
- Each delivery weighed and logged against its grower and plot
- Moved to the withering troughs within hours of plucking
Withered, then processed using our CTC, Orthodox, Green and White methods
Leaf is withered under controlled airflow and humidity, then processed on our CTC, Orthodox, Green and White lines before fluid-bed driers lock in liquor strength and color.
- Withered 14–18 hours with monitored airflow and humidity
- Processed using our CTC, Orthodox, Green and White methods
- Fired in fluid-bed driers to fix flavor, strength and color
Sorted, graded, and cupped against international standards
Sorting machines separate every batch into export grades, while licensed tea tasters cup each lot and the lab verifies moisture, ash and fibre content before it is cleared for sale.
- Mechanically sorted into export grades
- Every batch cupped by licensed tasters before release
- Moisture, ash and fibre verified against ISO and Rwanda Standards Board specs
Packed, lotted, and sold to buyers worldwide
Cleared lots are packed in sealed, numbered sacks and sold through the Mombasa Tea Auction or negotiated directly with international buyers, then containerized for shipment.
- Packed in paper sacks or export cartons, each lot numbered and sealed
- Sold at auction or through direct contracts with exporters and blenders
- Containerized and shipped via regional ports to markets worldwide
Blended, packaged, and poured by brands worldwide
Importers and packers blend our leaf into retail and foodservice brands sold across dozens of countries — and every shipment stays traceable back to the factory and growing region it came from.
- Blended by importers and packers into retail and foodservice brands
- Every shipment traceable back to the factory and growing region
- The same leaf picked on Rwandan hillsides, now in cups around the world
From the journal
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