First Shoots
Light sweetness, clean finish
17.6 oz (500 g)Launching soon
Of · Trabzon · 41°N
OZCAY
From the last mountain before the sea.
The picking standard
Two and a Half Leaves
Hand-picked by family growers.
The cooperative
Owned by Its Growers
About 2,100 family growers on Turkey’s Black Sea coast — a cooperative since 1989.
The tea is this way.
The cooperative
The people who pick it own the factory.
The Of Ozcay Agricultural Development Cooperative has grown tea in the hills above Of, on Turkey’s Black Sea coast, since 1989 — owned outright by the roughly 2,100 family growers who work its gardens.
The tea
Featured teas.
The season’s first shoots, the devotee’s strong daily black and a steamed whole-leaf green — hand-picked in the early morning above Of and processed the same day.
The Devotee’s Tea
Malt, tannin, a long finish
17.6 oz (500 g)Launching soon
Green Tea
Grassy, vegetal
17.6 oz (500 g)Launching soon
Our process
Grown slow, picked by hand,
processed fresh.
Picked by hand
Two and a half leaves — the cooperative’s own picking standard, taken by hand in the family gardens above Of.
Processed among the gardens
The factory has stood in Of since 1988, minutes from the slopes it serves — fresh leaf goes straight in, up to a hundred tonnes a day in season.
Steamed, not pan-fired
The green teas are steam-processed — the Japanese method — which holds their colour and aroma where pan-firing would trade it away.