Tag: second flush
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Revisiting Castleton Moonlight
I think it’s high time I talk about the Castleton estate. Again.
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A Long-Awaited Look at Latumoni
Throughout 2018, there was one name I could not escape. Latumoni. It was the name given to a village in Northeastern Assam, situated in the uppermost part of the Dibrugarh district. It was apparently so remote; it didn’t even show up as a physical location on Google Maps. (At least, not in English.) Stranger still,…
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A Kanchan View Darjeeling Pairing
The Kanchan View tea estate in Darjeeling has a rough history. The garden was first established in the 1880s, where it first went by the name “Rungneet”. At the peak of its hundred-plus-year production, the 250-acre garden accounted for at least 100,000 kilos of tea a year. Now? It only does about ten percent of…