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The Tea Garden Grows Inside a Forest That Fights to Stay a Forest

The Amchong Tea Estate has made tea for sixty years inside Amchang Wildlife Sanctuary, one of Guwahati's most pressured protected forests, where a court-ordered eviction and an army's rewilding have been needed to hold the peace with its elephants.

The Garden's Mark: How to Read the Auction Room to Find Good Assam

A grade tells you the leaf size, not the cup. The garden's mark does: read year after year at the Guwahati auction by buyers who taste before they bid, it is the trade's running verdict on how one estate's tea actually drinks, and it is the best shopping tool a drinker has for seeking out Assam worth buying.