Silver Tips Tea Blog

Here's a look at what goes on behind the scenes, our thoughts on tea, fun facts and customer comments.

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Leaf Styles

Tea comes in all kinds of styles and shapes.  Black tea is often associated with a grade: OP - orange pekoe (denoting a full leaf tea) FOP - flowery orange...

Leaf Styles

Tea comes in all kinds of styles and shapes.  Black tea is often associated with a grade: OP - orange pekoe (denoting a full leaf tea) FOP - flowery orange...

Tea Manufacture - Black Tea

What color is fresh tea leaf? And how does black tea become black? We get this question at just about every Tea Tasting session and from our regular customers. The...

Tea Manufacture - Black Tea

What color is fresh tea leaf? And how does black tea become black? We get this question at just about every Tea Tasting session and from our regular customers. The...

The perils of agriculture

We sometimes forget how dependent we are on the weather. How out of our control it is. This year, the regions of Assam and Darjeeling in northern India experienced a...

The perils of agriculture

We sometimes forget how dependent we are on the weather. How out of our control it is. This year, the regions of Assam and Darjeeling in northern India experienced a...

The art of tea

The weather is improving in Darjeeling but still, not a drop of rain. You can't hurry Mother Nature. Some years the season starts early March. Of late, with the climate...

The art of tea

The weather is improving in Darjeeling but still, not a drop of rain. You can't hurry Mother Nature. Some years the season starts early March. Of late, with the climate...

Stakes in the ground...

On my treks around the plantation, I saw areas with many stakes in the ground. I was walking with Dev, our manager, and asked him what these were. He explained...

Stakes in the ground...

On my treks around the plantation, I saw areas with many stakes in the ground. I was walking with Dev, our manager, and asked him what these were. He explained...

The journey of the leaf

At 12 noon, all the pluckers from the seven villages of Makaibari make their way towards weighing stations to get their baskets of leaf weighed. Then it's lunch break. Each...

The journey of the leaf

At 12 noon, all the pluckers from the seven villages of Makaibari make their way towards weighing stations to get their baskets of leaf weighed. Then it's lunch break. Each...