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  • March 30, 2012

    Earliest Memories of Tea

    It was dark as I peered into the bowels of the tea bushes. I must have been about five or six, when I ventured out on my own beyond the train tracks where the tea plantation was. It was perfect...

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  • January 14, 2011

    Hammer’s history: gone in 60 seconds

    http://www.livemint.com/2011/01/14211359/Hammer8217s-history-gone-i.html The last open outcry auction of tea will take place any day now. By the time the next crop arrives, the gavel may well be history Aniek Paul Kolkata: Banging the gavel on transactions running into millions of rupees...

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  • January 10, 2011

    Storm In The Tea Gardens

    http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2011/01/indias_restive_gorkhas OF INDIA’S million mutinies, the one still roiling the hill town of Darjeeling and its surrounding tea-growing areas in the north of the state of West Bengal is a long-running one. Back in 1907, the region’s residents, dominated by...

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  • January 8, 2011

    Darjeeling Tea Production at Record Low

    http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/agriculture/article1063434.ece Erratic weather conditions coupled with low productivity has led Darjeeling tea producers to close the year 2010 with a low crop of only around 7 million kg which is among the lowest in history. There are 87 tea estates...

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  • September 18, 2010

    Lower Darjeeling tea crop feared due to erratic weather

    http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/article697233.ece Production of Darjeeling tea is set to be lower this year with erratic weather conditions cutting into the crop-size of one of India 's best-known commodities. The Darjeeling tea industry, which reported a 12 per cent lower crop between...

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  • May 16, 2010

    Spring Exotica, Goomtee Tea

    You can always depend on Goomtee tea garden to produce good quality Darjeeling. It is the quiet workhorse of the industry. If you are looking for a classic Darjeeling first flush, sans any stunts, Spring Exotica is for you. DRY...

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  • May 13, 2010

    Interview with Darjeeling tea's Big Daddy

    An interview of Ashok Lohia, the owner of largest number of Darjeeling tea estates, published today in the Economic Times. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/commodities/Scanty-rains-may-cut-Darjeeling-tea-output/articleshow/5923534.cms The 58-year-old Ashok Lohia took up production of Darjeeling tea in 1988 with two estates — Chamong and Pussimbing....

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  • May 11, 2010

    Arya Emerald Tea

    We are happy to release the first of our spring green teas for this year. And nothing can be more delightful than to start with Emerald from the Arya Tea Estate. Emerald is always among the best of Darjeeling green...

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  • May 6, 2010

    Tea and the Taster are One

    It is something we had always noticed: everybody has a different experience of the same tea. (Me and my wife no longer squabble over our different opinions about tea).  Our tea tasting notes that we publish are nothing more than rough sketchs, which you could...

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