source www.goomtee.com There are several points along the route that tea takes from bush to grocer’s shelf where some assessment of its quality is called for. It spite of the rapid growth of technological improvements in the production of tea, no scientific analysis yet devised can replace the judgement of an expert tea taster after [...]
Shincha Fest in Diepholz, Northern Germany On Saturday, May 21, we set out at 5 a.m. to the Shincha Fest organized by our German partners from Keiko Shimodozono. This event was a celebration of both the arrival of so-called “new tea” (shincha) from Japanese First Flushes and the opening of new company premises in the [...]
Our friends who now travel through Korea as well as tea producers we met last year during our journey are informing us about tea harvest development. The season usually starts in April.
Keiko tea tasting at Koishi shop.
20th of April – 2 pm – 6 pm
This article is a summary of many rounds of tea degustation we got through to select and choose the best of fresh teas from Darjeeling and Nepal. Wa have tasted the first Darjeelings in middle of March at the moment the embargo was still happening. The FF export embargo was luckily ended at the end of March. The tea samples from Nepal came a bit later and next are on the way. The nepalese season always starts a bit later than in Darjeeling.
Times of India 1. 4. 2011 – Wage Dispute Partially resolved in Darjeeling
In a meeting held last nigt (29th March) in Siliguri between the representatives of Darjeeling Tea Association and GJM (party for „Gorkha Land“), CPRM and Congress, it was decided the embargo would be lifted from 63 gardends gathered under DTA. The remaining 23 gardens still have the tea embargo.
On Sunday, March 27, we managed to be present for unloading of freshly fired pottery from the kiln. The ceramists Petr Novák and Mirka Randová, whose work you already know from our website, live in the village of Doupě, where they are reconstructing a farmhouse and building the Ceramics Studio Doupě (www.kcdoupe.cz). They use it for their own work as well as for holding ceramic workshops and meetings.
After tasting 27 samples from the Tumsong, Lingia, Marybong, Ging, Bannockburn, Tukdah and Phoobsering gardens yesterday, we selected and reserved two of the Darjeeling First Flushes of this year.
Economic Times, 21st March 2011, brief overview:
GJM and DTDPLU insist on wage rise. Planters argue the wage rise is a timebound process. DTDPLU enforced a clampdown on he despatch of first flush of Darjeeling tea, demanding minimum wage 120 indian rupees per day.
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