It’s kind of cool that the profile of this tea pretty much belongs to me, since no one else owns it, and the stock has been depleted, so no one else is going to own it either! I suppose that I could share my 250g bag…
For now, I’m just enjoying the nutty and rich flavor of an autumn flush darjeeling. It brews up a perfect golden amber color and tastes very smooth, provided that one does not overleaf or overheat. For many teas, it is better to err toward the side of excess leaves—certainly that seems to be the case for straight black and oolong teas—but for darjeeling I find the opposite to be the case. Do not overleaf, and above all: do not oversteep or overheat!
I have so much of this tea that I’m thinking about using it as a palate cleanser between my midday green and my imminent tasting adventures through the vast universe of Golden Tips tea. That was my plan today, but it ended up being so hot, and then while admiring the dried leaves of this tea I accidentally spilled a bunch and it went everywhere: on my bed, under my bed, next to my bed, on the shelving next to my bed, … it seemed to take forever to find all of the errant leaves. I wasn’t sure whether insects would be attracted to tea, so I figured that I’d better clean up the mess rather than experiment and see, as nothing is more horrifying to me than the prospect of insects crawling over my body in the middle of the night. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that if I were an insect, I’d totally crawl out of the woodwork to munch on some of these fragrant nutty-scented leaves!
So I cleaned up the mess, and then I moved on to iced tea.
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This tea sounds wonderful! I remember when I was just starting to get into loose leaf, and I had some darjeelings to try, I totally steeped them at boiling or near boiling temperature and then I was shocked at how nasty it tasted. :D Later I read that one is supposed to steep them at oolong or even green tea temperatures, I tried it, and I fell in love with darjeelings ;)
It makes all the difference, Kat_Maria! What I find incomprehensible is that the myth according to which darjeeling should be steeped at 212F persists and is printed on nearly all packaging as the correct temperature!
This tea sounds wonderful! I remember when I was just starting to get into loose leaf, and I had some darjeelings to try, I totally steeped them at boiling or near boiling temperature and then I was shocked at how nasty it tasted. :D Later I read that one is supposed to steep them at oolong or even green tea temperatures, I tried it, and I fell in love with darjeelings ;)
It makes all the difference, Kat_Maria! What I find incomprehensible is that the myth according to which darjeeling should be steeped at 212F persists and is printed on nearly all packaging as the correct temperature!