Margaret's Hope Estate Darjeeling, India SFTGFOP-1 Organically Grown Black Tea   An absolutely wonderful black tea from one of the world's best tea producing regions. Darjeeling blacks have a nutty mellow taste that has to be experienced. Margaret's Hope is one of the best of the bests that steeps a light amber flowery cup. Margaret's Hope Estate has a disctinctly non-Indian name. Read below the Purchase Buttons for an explanation. SKU - 4005-005 $ 32.95 - 4 oz bag       10% of purchase price donated to Children Related Charities!

On the last day of the year 1600, the East India Trading Company, later called the John Company, was officially formed by the beer drinking Queen Elizabeth, "for the honour of the nation, the wealth of the people, the increase of navigation and the advancement of lawfulle traffic". This trading company, through manipulation eventually controlled most of present day India, until the crown took full control in the early 1850's. This measure displaced or unemployed hundreds of Company directors and clerks. One such company officer decided to take advantage of a new initiative by the English government to grow tea in Darjeeling by offering any European 5,000 acres free of rent for ten years if they consented to grow TEA. The new entrepreneur started a tea estate using his wife Margaret's money. It was her Hope Chest in other words and her hope she hadn't squandered it all on her husband's new adventure. It turned out to be a good investment.