Black · Darjeeling, India
Darjeeling First Flush
Moderate caffeine
A high-grown black tea with pale liquor, brisk structure, and a lifted floral-muscatel character.
Recipe
- Temperature
- 92 °C · 198 °F
- Leaf
- 3 g
- Water
- 240 ml
- First steep
- 2:30
- Each next steep
- +0:20
- Steeps
- 3
Suggested starting point.
Time this brew with Pekoe
Brew guide
Use freshly drawn water just below boiling and a shorter infusion to preserve its light, aromatic profile.
Aroma notes
spring flowers · green grape · fresh hay
Tasting notes
lively briskness · soft floral lift · clean mineral close
Harvest
March–April
Making
Planting 
Plucking 
Withering 
Rolling 
Oxidation 
Firing 
Sorting
Origin
Darjeeling, West Bengal · India
Thin air holds the growth back, and cold nights tighten it. What remains is a small dense leaf, up to that muscatel note.
Lore
Planted in the 1850s with Chinese stock in Himalayan foothills, Darjeeling turned altitude into aroma. The first flush, after winter dormancy, is the year's most delicate picking.
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