Nilgiri tea
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Nilgiri tea is a drink made by infusing leaves of Camellia sinensis that is grown and processed in the Nilgiris district in Tamil Nadu, India. The leaves are processed as black tea, though some estate
Nilgiri black tea leaves
Laborers plucking tea leaves in Coonoor, Nilgiris
Tea estate below Coonoor, Nilgiris
In an estate near Doddabetta
Crush, tear, curl
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Crush, tear, curl is a method of processing tea leaves into black tea in which the leaves are passed through a series of cylindrical rollers with hundreds of sharp teeth that crush, tear, and curl the
Black tea produced using the CTC method
Tea leaf rolling machine, Munnar Tea Museum in Kerala