This man dressed in red with a basket on his back, do you recognise him? He is filling his basket with the greatest care, delicately picking the best tea shoots, for you. A few fir trees can be seen through the mist. I hope that, at the bottom of your tree, in a few days’ time, he will place the finest teas in the world.
11 October 2013
The Margaret’s Hope garden is one of the best known in Darjeeling. Its reputation is justified by the quality of its teas and also because, from time to time, this…
11 January 2013
South of the beautiful Lake Innlay, so often shrouded in mist, is one of the two mountains on which the Burmese grow tea. Around Pingluang, more specifically, about 30 kilometres…
1 March 2013
Some time in the next two weeks I should receive the first of a large number of samples from Darjeeling. During the first few days I get just a handful,…
13 June 2014
I am writing to you from paradise, From a plantation at the end of the world, Right at the bottom of a valley in Nepal. A plantation worth finding after…
