Simply Darjeeling!

The garden tea we currently offer is a Second Flush from the Ambootia estate. A First Flush garden tea will be available again soon.

The renowned Ambootia tea estate, nestled in the rugged foothills of the Himalayan Mountains, is famous for its organic teas. Ambootia transitioned to 100% organic and bio-dynamic production in 1992. It is certified organic by the renowned Institute of Market Ecology in Switzerland, and Fair Trade certified by Fairtrade Labeling Organizations International. It also carries the Naturland seal.

If you wish to order this tea, please go to our online shop.

In the September issue of Blood: Journal of the American Society of Hematology a scientific letter appeared about the possible effectiveness of green tea in curing amyloidosis, a medical condition in which amyloid proteins are abnormally deposited in organs and tissues of the body. The author Werner Hunstein, a renowned professor emeritus of hematology, who suffers from amyloidosis himself, traces the effects of green tea in improving his own illness. Hunstein was diagnosed with amyloidosis in 2001, and the aggressive chemotherapy treatment that followed left him shattered. That he managed to recover his strength and go back to normal in his daily life, Hunstein attributes to green tea. When he began to drink large amounts of green tea (usually about two liters per day), his condition improved significantly; the deposition of amyloid proteins was stopped, and his heart resumed beating more strongly.

In a letter to Teekampagne, our parent company, Professor Hunstein revealed that the green tea which proved so beneficial to his health was Teekampagne’s Darjeeling Green Tea.

(Werner Hunstein, “Epigallocathechin-3-gallate in AL amyloidosis: a new therapeutic option?” Blood, 15 September 2007, Vol. 110, No. 6, pp. 2216; “Hilft gruener Tee gegen krankhafte Eiweissablagerungen?” Neue Zuercher Zeitung, 19 September 2007.)

A video by the Tea Board of India, the official Indian tea authority, introduces you to the region of Darjeeling and the production of Darjeeling tea.

To view the video, click here.

From the New Harvest, we offer four kinds of loose tea: First Flush, Second Flush, Ambootia Garden Tea and Green Darjeeling.

We still have some loose tea from the previous harvest available, now offered at a reduced price. This will be available while supplies last.

For the first time, we are offering teabags. True to our philosophy of selling tea in large packets to reduce costs, we have packed them in a beautiful box of 100 individually sealed sachets.

Our gourmet teabags contain 100% pure Darjeeling Black Tea, certified as “organic” by the Institute for Market Ecology in Switzerland. Larger than traditional teabags, they are especially designed to let the tea leaves (!) expand: they are made of a unique mesh-like material, with a cardboard handle that makes them easy to use in cups as well as in pots. (A traditional tea bag contains approx. 2 grams of “fannings”; ours contains 4 grams of Pure Darjeeling leaf tea.) To assure top quality, they are individually sealed.

Free sample teabag available on request from customerservice@bostonteacampaign.com.