Tagged: exports
Article · Estates & Terroir
What the Name on an Assam Orthodox Tin Guarantees
When a tin says "Assam Orthodox," it is making a legal promise: real whole-leaf tea grown and rolled in the Brahmaputra valley. Here is exactly what that promise covers, and the one border where it stops.
Article · History
Where Assam Goes
Most Assam never leaves the country, and the blend that says Assam on the tin does not always have any in it. Here is the honest map of where the leaf travels, by weight and measure.
Guide · Trade & Economics
The Assam Tea Trade
Assam tea is grown by two entirely different kinds of producer and sold down two entirely different channels, one of them compulsory by law. The canonical account of who grows it, how it reaches a buyer, what the auction settles that a private sale does not, and the rules that bind both.