
Detailed Description
Dry Tea Leaf:
Appearance: The plucking standard is high quality and consists of the buds and the two leaf structure, with plenty of woolly soft silver tips. Only experienced experts were employed on 13th March 2024 to carefully handpick this delicate first blossom of 2024 from the youngish mature clonal section, (about 14 to 15 years old bushes) located at an elevation of 2200ft above sea level, thus creating this limited edition small batch tea. Color is a mixture of light green delicately rolled into thin wiry silver tips which also accentuates the look of the made tea adding that special floral fragrance and flavor to the tea liquor.
Fragrance: The dry tea leaves have heavenly sweet floral fragrance of high mountain forest.
Liquor:
Appearance: Brighter shades of sparkling light lemon.
Fragrance: Fragrances of wild flowers from high elevation Himalayan forest are noted.
Flavour: This tea is exactly like a mildly fragrant blooming flower which can be experienced as we sip. To start with, notes of Jasmine and other wild flowers are distinct, with smooth buttery feel, covers the entire mouthfeel and blooms and bursts gradually in taste, waxing and waning with undertones of citrus notes mountain and lasts for a long time as an aftertaste.
No of infusions: Two good infusions brewed at 5 minutes each.
Reasons to buy: The rareness and availability in limited quantity makes it another reason to relish this tea.
Glenburn tea estate is a 150+ year old tea garden started by Scottish company in 1859, located about 8km (aerial distance) from Darjeeling town. The elevation where teas are grown is between 2000ft and 5500ft. This tea estate is famed for its range of signature clonal teas which is much sought after by the top tea connoisseurs.
200ml filtered water |
85°C to 95°C |
2g to 2.5 g |
5 to 7 minutes |