Reinventing Darjeeling Tea

July 9, 2023

How the Acclaimed Tea District Calls for Innovation – and One Planter's Bold Response In tea, Darjeeling, with its verdant hills and rolling mist, has for long been associated with the pinnacle of a certain kind of British exce

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S.B. Veda

SB Veda is the pen name for Sujoy Bhattacharyya, who is a British/Canadian independent writer based in Kolkata. Born in London and raised in the UK and Canada, the award-winning writer and editor’s works have also been published in The Independent, The Guardian, the Ottawa Citizen, The Global Calcuttan and Pragati International. He has a longstanding connection to Darjeeling, where he tries to visit once a year, and he’s currently working on a book about a Darjeeling tea garden, which is expected release in 2023.

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7 Comments

KUMKUM BOSE
on July 9, 2023 at 9:02 am •Reply

Excellent and informative writing. Waiting for the book about Darjeeling tea Garden.
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on July 9, 2023 at 12:33 pm •Reply

This was such an enjoyable and informative article of Rishi Saria’s tea estates and processing techiniques. I have been buying teas for some time now from Golpaldhara and Rohini .
Saria’s presence on Instagram to advertise his teas has continued to delight my senses. A job well done!
Daniel Hong
on July 9, 2023 at 8:56 pm •Reply

I am so happy to see such deviate innovation.
Mr. Rishi, what’s the weather that roasting day? How long it rest for 2nd roasting? It is these details hooked me. Last autumn the drought was so deadly, the fresh leaves were like hollow patients, but you can not just dumped them right?! I had to became a doctor to recover it while tossing it, to get the balance of Yin and Yang. Last week, the leaves were bitten by insects, no way to make traditional tea, instead I combined White tea and Black tea craft, as well as Taiwan Oriental Beauty craft, finally made a shinning monster. Mr. Rishi, if one day we sit together, I would like to talk about the bad of the tea you and I made, instead of the good ^_^
Upamanyu Borkakoty
on July 9, 2023 at 11:21 pm •Reply

Gopaldhara and Rohini has created some exceptional benchmark in the world of Darjeeling teas. I would agree that there is so much to experiment in tea, apart from the traditional styles of making orthodox teas (both in Assam and Darjeeling)

So much to learn from Shiv Saria and Rishi Saria 🙏
Sajjan Bagaria
on July 10, 2023 at 12:27 am •Reply

Dear Rishi.
I am very, impressed with your deep interest and knowledge of Tea growing and processing. Of course, your family is doing wonders.
I have little idea on these but it is interesting to know all this.
All the very Best in your committed endeavours.
L R Bhat
on July 10, 2023 at 2:07 am •Reply

Thanks for this very enjoyable article which provides a sigh of relief that there is someone creatively exploring to bring back the elite position of Darjeeling Tea, especially the aromatic golden cups variety, on the world map. I wish the industry associations and government agencies come together to contribute to this effort in retaining the characteristics of the unique Darjeeling terroir and crafting new processing techniques, to create many more “Moonlight” type teas with unique flavours. I wish Gopaldhara Tea much success in this endeavour.
Prof. Subhash Chandra Barua
on July 10, 2023 at 9:51 pm •Reply

Nice writing. Very well described.
May I have online issue of ‘Black tea from the green tea plant’ ?