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Why India's tea towns need to show off their teas | Mint (opens the original)
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This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Last week, I took a short break in Wayanad. Tea was part of the plan but I chose to stay on a coffee estate. The estate was not directly involved in running the hospitality wing of the business but surrounded as we were by acres of coffee, I was keen to taste a local Robusta or even some of that famed monsooned Malabar. I was both disappointed and flabbergasted to find Nescafe and Bru as the dominant coffee options
How Indian independence created three tea industries | Mint (opens the original)
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This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Indian independence and its aftermath had an unexpected effect on the subcontinent’s tea industry. It created three industries: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. When the East India Company set out to create a parallel tea economy in the colonies, today’s Bangladesh was very much part of this exercise, being an extension of the eastern parts of India. Tea planting experiments in the 1840s included Chittagong, just sou
A beginner's guide to compressed tea cakes | Mint (opens the original)
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This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. On the India Tea Collective WhatsApp group, a recent chat was about sourcing compressed tea cakes from Assam. It got me thinking about how much has changed in recent years. Back in 2019, when I started writing this column, single-estate or single-origin tea was new. There were small pockets of tea connoisseurs, mostly those who had stumbled upon a superlative Darjeeling that had changed how they perceived tea. Now,
Why Indian tea tourism is ditching colonial bungalows for active, social experiences | Mint (opens the original)
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This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Tea has an image problem. In India, we still think of it as comforting and familiar, or as a drink to pause, unwind with. Both are true, but they carry a passivity that does tea no favours. Add to this, we’ve marketed tea on nostalgia or health—well-worn but lacking appeal to a new generation. Look at any beverage that’s trending or has the attention of 20-somethings. Coffee is associated with high energy. So too is
Why the tea flower deserves your attention | Mint (opens the original)
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This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Whenever I mention the tea flower, I am almost always met with momentary surprise—does a tea plant actually produce flowers? Given that the tea plant is part of the Camellia genus known for its ornamental plants, it ought not to be a surprise. In Japan and China, camellias were cultivated for gardens but the tea flower (Camellia sinensis or Camellia assamica) has never come into focus. No photos of manicured tea bus
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