Darjeeling tea leaves plucked during India's dynamic monsoon season are abundant, but require a daily artistic touch from the tea maker in deciding how to best wither and dry the smaller leaves that grow on overcast days. Their decisions further enhance the leaves' depths of flavor: floral aromatics with bright pepper and alpine notes and deep undertones of nuts, musk and malt.
Tea in North India is produced for about nine months of the year, from March to November. The same tea plant may be plucked (harvested) thirty times during this period. Teas produced from the same plant, but during a different time of the year can produce a very different tasting tea because of a change in the environmental conditions, mainly the weather and season, which will affect the growing conditions. A good tea maker has to be very sensitive to these changes, and may have to fine tune his processes on a daily basis to get the best results. There is no machine that can help him, and he must rely on his finely tuned "nose". The tea that you will receive will be from a single "batch" of tea produced on a particular day of a particular season.
Bring filtered or spring water to 190°F. Add 1.5 tsp of tea leaves to an 8oz cup. Pour boiling water over the tea leaves and let steep 3 minutes.
Ingredients:
- FTGFOP1 Organic Darjeeling black tea
Origin:
Sourenee Estate, Darjeeling, India