Darjeeling tea, the delicate sophisticated tea of the high regions of the Himalayan foothills. Darjeeling tea is always lighter and more subtle than most. While you could in theory add milk to it to do so would rob you of the unique savor of this prince of tea!
Quality Darjeeling's are grown up to 6500ft in the Himalayas and considered to be the ‘champagne’
of teas. Its cooler clean climate gives a refreshingly light cup with a
natural muscatel flavor. The leaf can be typically thin and twisted
with silvery tips and a greenish character. An ideal evening tea
Kalej Upper Valley S.T.G.F.O.P.1.
Our Jungpana tea is made
from relatively young tea bushes from china. Now being reared on the
slopes of the Mahanadi valley in Darjeeling. Grown at an altitude
ranging from 3500’ to near 7000’. This contributes to its floral
yet almost honey like smoothness. The bushes themselves are
exposed to the first light as the sun crests the mountains, making the
golden liquor of this Darjeeling tea the nearest thing to liquid sunlight you can
experience.
The estate itself was founded by the Duncan brothers of Scotland when the
British held the region. After the british the Rana of Nepal took it
over and most latterly it passed to the Kejriwal family, who have
tended it for some fifty years with care and award winning precision.
If you like particularly High grown teas may I also recommend you try out the Ilam valley tea in the Nepalese section. Some nepalese are every bit as good as there Indian cousins.
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