The Sikkim tea of Temi: a single estate’s quiet legend
The state-owned Temi estate, one of the world's most remote tea gardens, is selling out its limited harvest.
Perched at 6,000 feet above the Teesta valley, the Temi tea estate is one of the world’s most remote — and its small harvest of orthodox tea, grown without chemicals, sells out months ahead.
The estate’s organic certification, the first for tea in the region, has made its second-flush leaves a collector’s item.
The plantation, owned by the state, employs 400 families — and its workers’ children now make up most of its management trainees.