A time of change
Whether it is Darjeeling, Kokrajhar, Kishagunj, or Bangalore, it is a civil war and the brunt of this war is felt by tea, in particular, our beloved great Indian tea, including Darjeeling, Doke, and...
View ArticleXiamen – a destination for tea business..
Looking for more avenues of consumption, the Indian Tea Board landed in Xiamen to attend the Tea Fair from 10th to 13th October 2013 along with six producers from Darjeeling, Assam, Bengal, Bihar and...
View ArticleDong Fang Mei Ren
Actually, it’s a funny story. It happened in Taiwan during the Japanese Ruling Era. It is said that there was a tea farmer who was very lazy and did not take good care of his tea. So his farm was...
View ArticleTea review: Doke autumnal 2014
This tea comes from a small producer in Bihar, south of Darjeeling. The flat tea garden, next to a river (a power plant outlet), is everything else than the almost eponymous “Darjeeling Himalayan...
View ArticleDoke & Japan
Astringency in India teas – be it Darjeeling or green teas – makes them less attractive to the people of China & Japan. But this time during Xiamen Expo in October 2016 I found that Doke Black...
View ArticleRajiv Lochan and Doke
Rajiv Lochan was born in a tea garden in December 1953, and ever since has tried to do something different. Destiny took him to different corners of tea: from Darjeeling to Yunnan to Shizuoka to Bihar...
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