How might every packet of Nilgiri tea carry its estate, its elevation and its picker's pride?
Single-estate labels? Picker-signed packets? Elevation and frost-date on the tin, like a vintage?
The tin should smell like her hands, not the factory's. Name the picker, sign the label, date the frost.
Preethi · Xin CoonoorTerroir tags — elevation, monsoon, first-frost date, picker's estate. Like a bottle of Burgundy, but for tea.
Karthik · Xin CoonoorThe picker's name on the tin. My grandmother picked from these very fields — put her on the label.
Anitha · Xin CoonoorName the estate and elevation on our own tea menu first — then invite every hill café to match it.
Rajeev · Xin Coonoor