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.

Assam Grew the Purple Tea Everyone Else Is Selling

Kenya built a global purple tea business on a clone traced back to Assam seed exported early last century. Assam itself still has no commercial purple tea plant, only wild finds in Karbi Anglong and a germplasm bank holding the chemistry that could change that.