India Assam Joypur Small-Holder Hand-Made Black Tea

A smooth malty whole leaf black tea with lovely milk chocolate tones. It has been lovingly hand-crafted without the use of any machinery by local workers on their own small farm plots.

A growing trend is developing in Assam, whereby farmers are now hand-processing their own tea in small batches rather than selling their leaves to large factories.

This tea has been sourced direct from Manish whose family has run Bhartia Tea Estate for the past eighty years.

Recently, some of Manish’s workers have started producing hand-crafted teas from leaves grown on their own small farms utilising traditional processing techniques of hand-rolling the tea.

Although quantities produced are extremely limited due to the labouriously intensive nature of hand-processing teas, they have the advantage of exhibiting lots of character and nuances which would otherwise be lost in factory produced teas.