James Bond does not drink tea, but he does drink a lot of Martinis. A landmark collab This is the first time a tea estate and a bar, Sidecar have worked together to create signature cocktails. Sidecar is currently ranked 16 on Asia’s 50 best bars and the Makaibari tea estate has the distinction of having built the first tea …
But how did all this come about? It spans a range, from the spring flush black tea to summer muscatel, autumn oolongs, silver needle white tea, Bai Mu Dan white tea, green tea…. The Darjeeling brand itself goes back more than 150 years, though most of the lore connected to it is more recent—no more than half a century old—with …
Tomorrow is the summer solstice, a red-letter day in Darjeeling’s Makaibari tea garden. So, when you look at Makaibari’s 1,000-something acres, with nearly two-thirds left as virgin forest and only a quarter used to plant tea, you see a garden that is astonishingly vibrant. It was in 2014 that Rudra Chatterjee acquired Makaibari for his family’s Luxmi Tea. TEA TAKES …
