Manipur Wild Smoked Tea
By Forest Pick
ORIGIN: Churachandpur, Manipur
₹199 | 50 G
This traditional smoked black tea brews darker and stronger than a typical black tea. It has a bold, earthy flavour with mildly bitter and savoury notes.
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Forest Pick allows the tea leaves to oxidise overnight on bamboo racks before drying them in the sun the following day. The resulting tea has an unusual combination of earthy, savoury notes alongside subtle sweetness and fruitiness.
Ajara Ghansal is one of the several native varieties that have been revived by OOO Farms. Traditionally, farming communities would feed it to babies as it is easily digestible. It is also known for being easy on the gut.
Forest Pick sources and retails wild tea from local communities living in and around the hills adjoining the Churachandpur district in southern Manipur. Unlike most conventional tea plantations—where tea trees are pruned to be short bushes and treated with pesticides—wild tea trees grow up to 15 and 20 metres in height without any chemical intervention.
