Glenburn Tea History

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Take a 150-year-old plantation in the foothills of eastern Himalayas, Darjeeling. First started in 1859 by a Scottish Tea Company, Glenburn Tea Estate now run by a Kolkata based business family for four generations – The Prakash Family. With two snow fed rivers and Mt Kanchendzonga towering over, surrounded by reserve forest, Glenburn Tea Estate is one of the most picturesque tea gardens in Darjeeling. According to local folklore, the ghost of Kimble Murray, the first Glenburn Tea Estate manger, still roams seeking a perfect cup of tea. This is the very reason the locals also refer to Glenburn as “Kimble”.

Glenburn Tea Estate Terrior

Well surrounded by Reserve Forest known as “Simbong Forest”, Glenburn Tea Estate sprawls its wings on a 750 hectare area where River Rangeet and Rungdung flow alongside the tea garden. With around 700 worker families, Glenburn Tea Estate is a self sustained tea garden in Darjeeling producing excellent tea. Ranging from 800 ft to 3200 ft in elevation, Glenburn actually has 390 acres under tea cultivation.

Glenburn Darjeeling Tea

Glenburn Darjeeling Tea range all tea varieties. Each tea season Glenburn comes out with a range of teas. When it comes to Glenburn Darjeeling First Flush, their famed Glenburn Moonshine is a top category winner, made from pure clonal cultivar. During the Second Flush they make Glenburn Summer Darjeeling Oolong as a specialty tea. They also make some high grade white teas known as Glenburn Silver Needles which comprises of the elongated buds only. BUY NEW TEAS
 

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Culture entwined Glenburn Stay Bungalows

Burra Bungalow and Water Lily Bungalows
Glenburn Tea Estate apart from the tea that it grows and produces, it has also established itself as a leisure culture rich holiday destination with the renovation and construction of their two Bungalows, Burra Bungalow and Water Lily Bungalow respectively. Burra Bungalow is where the actual managers previously used to live and work from. Now these two bungalows has a facelift to a Boutique hotel. Work started on the Burra Bungalow first, by removing layers of paint and plywood to reveal beautiful old, burnished wood, and then by refurbishing the classic colonial furniture with fresh polish. The reinvented bungalow started life as a bespoke boutique hotel in 2002, and eight years later, it was the turn of the second homestead, Water Lily bungalow, to get a facelift and four fresh rooms.
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