Darjeeling teas come from three different picking periods and from about 90 different tea estates operating in Darjeeling, many of them at different altitudes and terroirs. Now, to bring the whole world of Darjeeling tea right within reach of your fingertips, we have created the Darjeeling 3-Seasons Box. With 6 different Darjeeling teas, 2 from each season and from different…
A veil of sweet mildness covers the teas opf the autumn flushes like a pastel-amber cloth. New facettes, previously overlayered by the spicy aromas of spring and summer are coming to surface. This year's Giddapahar autumn flush still bears much of the spiciness and sharp aromas of the estate's summer flush. Then, the taste of Giddapahar SFTGFOP 1 CL TPY…
The most astounding characteristic of this FTGFOP 1 SPL autumn flush of Goomtee Tea Estate in Darjeeling, India, is the bridge it builds back to the year's first spring picking. So, despite of the progressed season, this "Autumnal" from Kurseong Valley (= "land of orchids") has still much both of the first flush's floweryness and the second flush's aromatic spicyness.…
Just like Jungpana's first and second flushes, the overall taste of the Darjeeling tea garden's autumnals are characterized by full-bodiedness and well-balanced spicyness. 2019's Jungpana Autumn Flush combines brisk muscatel notes with malty and fruity sweetneess to a complex composition that helps this tea to an elevated level of individualtiy and class within its kind. For more information and illustrations,…
For too long, Assam and Darjeeling's autumn pickings have wrongly been stigmatized with a perceived low quality labeling. In the backdrop of a newly awakening quality awareness in the Indian tea sector, this stigma is finally fading. Thanks to the increased attention that is meanwhile paid again to the old and precious "Autumnals" tradition, the gentleness, multifacettedness and the deep…
