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Functionali-Teas
Since
1912
Luxmi promises you an excellent cup of tea. Over a century, across 25 estates, we nurture good leaf in exceptional terroir.
At Luxmi, it is believed that the best fertiliser is the farmer’s shadow.
She embodies the 25,000 workers who survey the field, assess the plant and pluck the most succulent, tender leaf that bursts flavour and strength. What you taste is her obsessive quest for quality.
Fine tea is a product of conducive nature and diligent nurture. Our estates span 50,000 acres of exceptional terroir in India and Africa. Travel around the world, you will not find a more aromatic Darjeeling than Makaibari, a brighter cup than Gisovu or strength to rival Dirai.
OUR GARDENS
THE FOUNDING OF LUXMI
rooted in freedom
In 1912, when the tea industry was predominantly British, PC Chatterjee founded Luxmi Tea as an Indian movement for self reliance.
At the time, tea making was characteristically British – sola toupees, burra sahebs and sundowners. Luxmi was born out of PC Chatterjee’s quest to make Indian tea a tool in the Satyagraha movement and to break the British monopoly.
ROOTED IN FREEDOM
With a tract of land in Tripura to his name, he began to cultivate tea independently, without management agencies or advisors from London. Little did he know the extraordinary legacy that he would create and set into motion with Luxmi.
Other members of the Indian freedom movement - Assamese and Bengali students who also rebelled against British rule, joined his company, then called Indian Tea and Provisions. What started as an expression of freedom from the British Raj has now come to stand for the freedom of spirit.
THE COMMUNITY
good tea starts with Luxmi
Every Luxmi worker is a skilled artisan, with generations of experience honing her intuition to pluck the right two leaves and a bud . To encourage this capacity, we support all her health and aspirations.
While her mission is to locate the finest polyphenol rich succulent leaf, ours is really just to see that her health and aspirations are met, such as good schooling for her children, basic housing, and healthcare for her family. For a hundred years Luxmi has covered 100% of all these essentials for each worker that tends to the plants.
THE ENVIRONMENT
nurturing forests
Luxmi cares about the health of its workers and its customers.
To this effect, luxmi nurtures its forests and grows tea harmoniously with nature. Many of the estates are home to dense woods, sometimes twice the area of the region growing tea.
Protecting the soil and welcoming a plethora of wildlife, these forests are an irreplaceable link in making some of the finest teas the world has ever sipped.
Adopting permaculture and organic farming has been the first step to sustainability. Estates have shunned the use of chemical additives and are switching to natural remedies. Every ounce of tea processed is subject to rigorous standard tests and is MRL verified.
Enough about us. Tell us, how would you like your tea?
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With 108 years of planting and 25 estates spread across the world’s best tea producing regions, we promise you an excellent cup.
With 108 years of planting and 25 estates spread across Assam, Bengal, Tripura, & Rwanda, we promise you an excellent cup of tea.
Luxmi promises you an excellent cup of tea. Over a century, across 25 estates, we nurture good leaf in exceptional terroir
Rwanda’s Tea Scoops Highest Premium Price At Mombasa Auction.
“Rwanda’s Tea Scoops Highest Premium Price At Mombasa Auction.”
- KT Press, 2019
If Darjeeling is the champagne of teas, Makaibari is the Krug or Henri Giruad.
“If Darjeeling is the champagne of teas, Makaibari is the Krug or Henri Giruad.”
- Time Magazine, 2008
Darjeeling's Makaibari becomes most expensive tea in India
“Darjeeling's Makaibari becomes most expensive tea in India.”
- Times Of India, 2014
