The province of Rize, in northeastern Türkiye, has long been known as the country’s tea capital. Plantations cling to steep mountain slopes overlooking the Black Sea and are tended to by remote communities.

A colourful tea tray with traditional tulip-shaped glasses as someone is pouring tea into them from a silver tea pot.

The tea production in Rize is often very small scale and all done by hand, from the harvesting to the drying, fermenting and serving.

Photograph by Kerry Murray

Story and photographs byKerry Murray