Golden Moon Sampler Tea #14:
Usual morning (messy), usual method of grabbing first black tea I see. I really like the leaves, all curling around each other, there was just something playful about them. I probably didn’t let it steep long enough, but as I grabbed it on my way out the door it had a pleasant enough golden brown color that eased my worries about ending up with lightly tea flavored water.
Hey so, where does the stress go when you say Darjeeling? DARjeeling? DarJEEling? DarjeeLING? I wanna say it’s the first, but a part of my brain urges me toward the second. Damn you ingrained habits from speaking Polish with your insistence that stress should always be on the next to last syllable!
Anyway, on to the actual taste. This seems pretty mellow as Darjeelings go. Very low (pretty much none really) astringency, an overriding, if somewhat diffident, tea-ness, and a vague sense of fruit and nut in the aftertaste. I am willing to agree that the fruit in question is a grape of some kind, but I couldn’t do so with conviction. I think I kind of like this sort of more laid back Darjeeling…but not enough to spend my hard-earned monies on.
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I always say DarJEEling, but I don’t know if that’s how they say it in India. Probably not, I suspect.
Everyone should just agree to put the stress on the next to last syllable of all words everywhere in every language. I am pretty sure it’s a necessary step toward world peace.
Angrboda is right according to this: http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio-medlineplus.pl?darjee01.wav=Darjeeling
I always say DarJEEling, but I don’t know if that’s how they say it in India. Probably not, I suspect.
Everyone should just agree to put the stress on the next to last syllable of all words everywhere in every language. I am pretty sure it’s a necessary step toward world peace.
Angrboda is right according to this: http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio-medlineplus.pl?darjee01.wav=Darjeeling