Darjeeling tea for guests at Olympics

VVIP guests at the Beijing Olympics would get to savour Darjeeling tea sent by a Kolkata based company, Makaibari Tea Estate.

VVIP guests at the Beijing Olympics would get to savour Darjeeling tea sent by a Kolkata based company, Makaibari Tea Estate.

Manager of Makaibari Tea Estate P K Chakrabarti said that a Chinese collaborator had sought tea from its Makaibari tea garden located in Darjeeling.

Accordingly, the company had sent a consignment of 333 kilograms of Makaibari tea to China.

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He said that the tea would be exclusively sampled and distributed to the VVIP guests attending the Beijing Olympics.

The average price of the tea was around Rs 8,000 per kilogram.

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