A special lot of handcrafted tea from the 155-year-old Makaibari Tea Estate in Kurseong sold recently for $1850 (around Rs 1.11 lakh) a kilo, thus becoming the most expensive Indian tea ever sold. And ...

A tea story that has been brewing in the Darjeeling hills for a while has now come to fruition with Makaibari tea estate owner Rajah Banerjee selling off almost 90% stake to the Luxmi Group.

If Fortnum’s can do it, so can Makaibari. The famous London-based department store, which supplies groceries and provisions to the British Royal family, has come up with a plethora of merchandise to ...

There is a certain mystique about the Makaibari Tea Estate in Kurseong from where the much prized Silver Tips Imperial tea comes. What gives it this special aura? A trip to the estate, on the ...

Over a hundred years old, Luxmi Tea Group was started by Paresh Chandra Chatterjee, a member of the Nationalist group, Anushilan Samiti when he decided to develop a tea plantation in independent ...

A fire destroyed a major portion of the famous Makaibari tea garden’s bungalow in Kurseong in Darjeeling district, West Bengal, on Thursday. Officials told The Telegraph that the building was home to ...

Makaibari, arguably the finest tea that the rolling greens and snow-capped mountains of Darjeeling have to offer, is checking into Taj Bengal, in a rare instance of the popular beverage finding a ...

Luxmi Tea, which owns the iconic Makaibari brand, would set up 100 exclusive stores across the country in the next three years, a company official said. At present, there are 10 such stores located in ...

A taste of tea, at ₹40,000 a kg? Yes, if you are sipping Silver Tips Imperial from the Makaibari tea estate. It takes a visit to the exclusive estate in Kurseong, nestling in the foothills of ...

Owing to the prolonged agitation in Darjeeling last year, the entire Makaibari crop, except the first flush, was destroyed, leading to a loss of around Rs 3 crore, Chatterjee said. (Website) Luxmi Tea ...

Kolkata: Luxmi Tea, which owns the iconic Makaibari brand, would set up 100 exclusive stores across the country in the next three years, a company official said. At present, there are 10 such stores ...