posted 4 hours ago
Estate tea (or more appropriately, single-estate tea) comes from a single farm and isn't mixed with other leaves from other farms or regions. If you enjoy high-end tea it's like wine, people like certain teas from certain regions and even certain time periods (since it can be aged). I used to be super into specialty tea.
I have also seen 'estate' also used on boxes of what I would call supermarket tea, the stuff in bags that I pick up at the market for making iced tea. I think in this case it's sort of like the word 'natural'-- means nothing but sounds kinda fancy.