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Alex Chaihorsky
 
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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.

"Scott Dorsey" > wrote in message
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>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
> --
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."