On a recent trip to some tea gardens in Darjeeling, I learnt something new – to those guys managing the plantations, an Indian 25-paisa coin is more than…
David Lyons responds to Ian Bersten’s post on the Sydney Tea Festival. Pop online, and visit almost any internet tea company’s website. Or walk through the doors of most tea…
When I saw the shop selling biscuits and cheap candies in the middle of nowhere at Namring tea estate, I was sold on an old marketing aphorism all…
I visited the Sydney Tea Festival which was held for just one day under a large covered roof. Most of the stalls were devoted to Chinese tea and…
Methinks if ever a movie is set in the Darjeeling hills of the 1940s-50s, it could be woven around the story of Lorna Elliott’s parents – all the…
Feeling spiritually elevated is inevitable in the Darjeeling hills. Out there, one tends to feel that much closer to God – not geographically because the mountain you are…
There is a feisty mountain river at the bottom of the hill where Avongrove tea estate is nestled, but it isn’t the Avon. And there are scattered clumps…
Until the 1840s all the world knew tea as being large leaf. From that time in Assam the British developed small leaf black tea which became very popular…