Queen's Cup

“Queen’s Cup”` is a complete tea experience where we believe in “Drink Smart Live Smart….” In this age ruled by a high degree of health consciousness we at the Queen’s Cup have strived to strike a perfect balance between health and the palate.
We bring you the choicest of organic teas from the misty Himalayas to the sun-kissed plains. Our tea bouquet includes Black Teas, Green Teas, White Teas and Oolong Teas. We also deal in special hand crafted flower and fruit infused teas.
We specialize in loose tea leaves, special gift packs, tea bags, tea pyramids and tea accessories.
Not only as popular refreshment and a welcome drink, tea has numerous medicinal benefits too.
Research has confirmed that there is evidence that green tea helps lowering the chances of developing heart disease as we well as specific kinds of cancer. According to a recent study from Hong Kong, green tea may also aid in staving off eye diseases including glaucoma.
According to research from Boston University Black Tea helps prevent cardiovascular disease. It also has high antioxidant properties.
White Tea along with preventing cardiovascular disease helps lower blood pressure and cholesterol owing to polyphenol antioxidants.
Oolong Tea has low caffeine content and provides mental relaxation. It helps fight inflammatory disorders, heart disease and high cholesterol levels. It also provides dental health.
For centuries tea has been treated as a rejuvenating elixir. Legend has it that tea was first discovered by Chinese Emperor Shen Nung in 2737 BC when leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant accidentally fell on water being boiled under it. Thus tea was born.
Though this story cannot be vouched for, tea containers found in the tombs in China dating back to the Hun (206 BC to 220AD) is a pointer to the fact that tea drinking existed at that time. In the late eight century the first tea book Ch’a Ching or the Tea Classic was penned by Lu Yu.
It then made its way to Japan with Buddhist monks from Japan carrying home tea from China. Soon tea ceremonies became an integral part of Japanese culture. Tea also became a favourite with the Tibetan monks in the form of butter tea. It soon emerged as the Monks’ drink.
It made its way to the West in the later half of the sixteenth century with the Dutch and Portuguese traders carrying it back from the Orient. In 1606 the first consignment of tea was shipped from China to Holland.
In India, Chinese varieties of tea were first introduced by the British, in an attempt to break the Chinese monopoly in the early 1820s. The East India Company using Chinese seeds along with Chinese planting and cultivating techniques, launched the tea industry by offering land in Assam to any European who agreed to cultivate tea for export.
Maniram Dewan (1806-1858) was the first Indian tea planter, and is credited with establishing the first commercial plantations of the Assamese variety of tea.
The world famous Darjeeling tea came had started from a kitchen garden in 1841. Dr. Campbell, a civil surgeon of the Indian Medical Service was transferred to Darjeeling in 1839 from Kathmandu, Nepal and used seeds stolen from China (Camellia Sinensis) to begin experimental tea planting.
The British government also established tea nurseries during that period. Commercial development began during the 1850s. During 1860-64, the Darjeeling Company was established with 4 garden. At present there are 87 tea gardens in the Darjeeling Hills. These 87 gardens are protected by Geographical Indication and can be sold as Darjeeling Tea.