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Tea plantations Sugar Cane plantations, Mauritius Before tourism, Mauritius was a top sugar and tea producer. © Bamba Sourang / OT Ile Maurice

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In the south, the hills of Bois Cheri have hundreds of acres of tea plantations. During the harvest, women start picking the leaves at dawn. They only remove the first two or three leaves on the stems. The tea is then transported to the manufacture where it is first dried and wilted for two days. It then ferments at room temperature for an hour and a half and is stabilized by heating at 110°C for 10 minutes. After the leaves have been sorted according to their calibre, the tea macerates for a whole month. It is finally flavoured with vanilla by adding some essential oils giving it the particular flavour of Mauritian tea! Once Bois Chéri vanilla tea has been tested, it is difficult not to become an addict!

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