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PORTUGAL AZORES TEA
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Sao Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal – 10 April 2025
1. Mid of Gorreana Tea Factory welcome sign by local artist Ilído Machado
2. Mid of sign portraying a tea picker holding tea leaves in her hand
3. Pan from tea factory across part of the plantation and Atlantic Ocean
4. Pan across tea plantation
5. Distant shot of tea harvesters
6. Various of tea harvesters filling large machine-attached bag with leaves
7. Filled tea leaf collection sack on ground
8. Mid of hillside with rows of Camellia sinensis (tea shrub)
9. Maria Madelena Motta, co-owner of Gorreana Tea Plantation, picking products from the shelves in the gift shop
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Madelena Motta, co-owner of Gorreana Tea Plantation:
“We have 32 hectares but in the world of tea it’s very little. In Bangladesh, there is one that has the area of our Island, but in Europe, we are the biggest one.”
11. Wide of green tea process of steaming the leaves
12. Worker putting the steamed leaves on the conveyor belt to be rolled
13. 19th-century rolling machines in action
14. Sign reading (English) ‘Oxidation Room’
15. Wide of wooden shelves in Oxidation Room
16. Various of leaves being dried
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Madelena Motta, co-owner of Gorreana Tea Plantation:
“Our tea goes to France, Germany – the best tea goes to Germany – we sell…I think it’s our principal buyer, Portugal and United States and Canada.”
18. German Saw Mill worker Daniel Weist with his daughter looking at old tea farming implements in the tasting room
19. SOUNDBITE (German) Daniel Weist, Saw Mill worker from Germany:
“In Germany, we drink tea more in the winter than in the summer. When it’s cold, it’s good to drink a hot tea.”
20. Drying machine entry point
21. Worker putting more rolled leaves into the drying machine
22. Tilt up of large English-made tea processing machine, zoom in to pressure gauge
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Madelena Motta, co-owner of Gorreana Tea Plantation:
“Women have always been in charge, we are very special here in everything – the money, making tea, everything with the women. In the fields are the men, out of the tea factory.”
24. Table of women destemming the leaves
25. Close of destemming
26. Mid of group of European Erasmus students who are studying in Lisbon, ordering tea
27. Various of tea being prepared
28. Wide of students being served tea
29. SOUNDBITE (English) Julia Zalewska, Student from Warsaw, Poland:
“I think the plantation looks amazing. I think none of the pictures show how it actually looks like, so you must see it live. And with the sun out, it’s even better.”
30. Various of tea leaves in the sunshine
31. SOUNDBITE (English) Martina Pozzi, Student from Milan, Italy:
“In my family, there is a tradition when somebody is travelling, since souvenirs can be boring sometimes, we just bring tea to each other as a souvenir. So, I got the chance to drink a lot of tea from different countries and different places I’ve never been to.”
32. Zoom out of men drinking tea
33. Mid of women drinking tea against backdrop of Atlantic Ocean
34. Various of ‘Brain Health’ tea
35. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Madelena Motta, co-owner of Gorreana Tea Plantation:
“We make this project with University from Azores, for four years they come here and they pick the leaves to study what time of the year we have more L-theanine in the leaves.”
36. Various of branded products in gift shop
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