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Darjeeling tea for guests at Olympics

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Posted: Jul 02, 2008 at 1314 hrs IST

Kolkata, July 2: VVIP guests at the Beijing Olympics would get to savour Darjeeling tea sent by a Kolkata based company, Makaibari Tea Estate.

Manager of Makaibari Tea Estate P K Chakrabarti said that a Chinese collaborator had sought tea from its Makaibari tea garden located in Darjeeling.

Accordingly, the company had sent a consignment of 333 kilograms of Makaibari tea to China.

He said that the tea would be exclusively sampled and distributed to the VVIP guests attending the Beijing Olympics.

The average price of the tea was around Rs 8,000 per kilogram.

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