Kalami/ Gulabi tea

I regularly drink a large-leaf tea called "Kalami" or "Kalmi" tea, also marked "Gulabi" tea. It seems to be a fairly low-grade Indian tea mostly for domestic consumption, definitely not a first-flush thing. It comes into the country from a lot of different companies, like "Tea India" and "Scheherazade."

What IS this stuff? Where does it come from? The quality is quite variable, but the better and fresher batches usually have a good clean floral or peach smell to them, and it's inexpensive enough to take a gamble and pitch the stuff that is not.

Is "Kalami" a place or a thing or what? What am I drinking here?

--scott

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Scott Dorsey
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For what its worth. I think this tea is meant for ethnic Iranian market in the US. It is definitely Indian but the ones I saw were all aromatized. Not my cup of tea.

Sasha.

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Alex Chaihorsky

Kalami is Indian for whole leaf assam. Barooti is Indian for broken leaf assam. Gulabi is another term for Kalami. That might be an Arabic translation but I'm not sure. There are earlier threads on the subject.

Jim

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Space Cowboy

That makes perfect sense... and it's true that these teas do seem to be intended for the middle eastern market.

But what language are these words in?

--scott

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Scott Dorsey

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