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First Stop Korakundah
The exotic aromas and bustling energy of Mumbai airport welcome us to India after a long flight. But our trip is far from over. From Mumbai we fly south to Coimbatore and then drive almost four hours to our destination. Exhausting, sure, but absolutely worth it. Our destination is Korakundah, a tea estate nestled in [...]

April 22, 2013
Tinderet Tea Estate

Emeric Harney in Africa 2012
Flying over the Great Rift and all the way west to Lake Victoria really gave me the opportunity to appreciate the varieties of landscapes and terrains in this part of Africa

September 18, 2012
Darjeeling Gardens

Alex Harney in Darjeeling 2012
We arrived to Darjeeling eager to get to work filming the process of making the fabled and delicious first flush tea.

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Drought In Uva
A small producer wrote this… “Unfortunately we are having a severe drought which means that our leaf yields have dropped more than expected.. it’s affecting the whole of UVA and i am now forced to go down to 14 day plucking rounds!” So we are drifting into the Uva season, when it is usually dry [...]

June 15, 2012

Just back from Asia
Me and my tasting buddies ( Elvira and Marcus) just went to Taiwan, Fujian, and Hunan. We went a bit later than normal so we could see some oolongs. Most times it is 3 weeks earlier, and we catch the Chinese greens. We were at the end of the Wenshan production, in the middle of [...]

May 11, 2012

Morning tea in Darjeeling
My son Emeric and I are drinking some Selimbong first flush done yesterday, awaiting the sunrise. I just heard the siren that marks the start of the day for pickets. Soon we will look at the withered (wilted) tea leaves that will rooked and oxidized then fired (dried) in an oven to make today’s DJ [...]

April 14, 2011

Travel to the tea gardens
We are getting ready to visit India and China to see what nature and the tea workers have made. We leave on the 10th to visit Darjeeling, then Assam. Then it is off to Hangzhou to taste some great Chinese green teas and then off to Changsha to see what Hunan has done this year. [...]

March 31, 2011

China Report
Well it was short, but the tea is sweet. Emeric and I were in China for only 5 days. On the first day, we got into Shanghai late in the afternoon. Yet I had my first meeting in 1/2 hour. I have great contacts in ZheJiang, but my contact in SuZhou disappeared. Thus my source [...]

April 15, 2009

Off to Hangzhou
Well, it is the time of the year when I am bound for China to take in the new teas. I am a little late because of an event at Cornell University (my alma mater). The other exciting part is that my middle son , Emeric, is coming. He has become a bit of a [...]

April 6, 2009

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