Munnar looks serene today. But beneath the mist lies a history of daring pioneers, vanished railways, catastrophic floods, and a struggle to tame the mountains.
Teas from the region carry the clean and medium-toned fragrance of sweet biscuit in a dip of malt. The liquor of golden yellow from the leaf has an orange depth and a rounded cup, strong-bodied with lively briskness, a touch of fruit, and a lingering note of sweetness in the finish. Expect the unexpected. The beauty of the hills beckons you to an inspiring morning of tea, where a lot can certainly happen over this single cup.
High-grown tea, nurtured by Finlays, lovingly looked after by the Tatas, and now steered by the Kannan Devan Hills Plantations Company as an employee-owned enterprise, has made Munnar a realm wholly unique, alongside the Nilgiri Tahr and Anaimudi, the highest mountain south of the Himalayas. That unmistakable character is the direct fruit of altitude, climate, mountain mist, and slow vegetative growth.
