Tagged: brahmaputra valley

Assam's Tea Gardens Run an Hour Ahead of India

Chaibagaan time, the clock Assam's tea gardens have kept since the British period, is one hour ahead of Indian Standard Time and has no legal existence. In 2018 the laboratory that keeps Indian Standard Time proposed the country adopt it.

Estates and Terroir

Assam tea grows on a hot, low, river-fed floodplain in northeast India. The Brahmaputra valley's heat, monsoon rain, and soil are what make the leaf malty and strong.

Assam Black Tea of the Brahmaputra Valley

Assam tea is the malty, brisk, full-bodied black tea grown in Assam, the Indian state in the Brahmaputra valley of northeast India, from Camellia sinensis var. assamica. What it is, where it grows, how it is made and graded.