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
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.