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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 alluvial soil are what make the leaf malty and strong. This is the terroir, the two valleys, the estate system, and what a single garden's name on the tin actually certifies.

Assam Black Tea of the Brahmaputra Valley

The canonical reference on Assam tea: 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, and where it ends up.