Processing their tea in one wing of an abandoned Soviet silk factory in the town, they aim to reintroduce Georgian tea to local and European buyers. “For 40 years nothing was happening here.

On a gusty Saturday afternoon in March, two men crack open a Soviet-made hangar, then scramble to slow the door’s movement as gravity takes over. The 33-ton blast door rumbles along a steel ...

But for the tea industry, the restoration of Georgia’s independence in 1991, after two centuries of rule from Moscow, came almost as a death blow. The collapse of the Soviet Union opened its ...

Processing their tea in one wing of an abandoned Soviet silk factory in the town, they aim to reintroduce Georgian tea to local and European buyers. “For 40 years nothing was happening here.