Workers process tea leaves at a factory of the Greengold tea company near the town of Ozurgeti, in the region of Guria, Georgia June 7, 2025. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze
ANASEULI, Georgia (Reuters) -When Lika Megreladze was a child, life in her native western Georgian region of Guria revolved around tea.
Her mother worked for decades as a scientist at the Soviet Union’s Institute of Tea and Subtropical Crops in the village of Anaseuli, perfecting cultivation methods for a Georgian tea industry that supplied the bulk of the vast communist state’s brews.
