“I’m not 100% sure that this is the 2014 one but possibly as this was purchased from someone on here within a year or two. I do apologize that I cannot remember who this one is from, everything ends...” Read full tasting note
“I love a good Darjeeling, for I crave that muscatel flavor. I saw this and the main flavor notes were “muscatel”, so I knew that I needed to try it. The dry leaf are small dark green and silver...” Read full tasting note
“The first thing I noticed about this tea is that it is very dry, with a wine-like, or muscatel flavor. When I hear Darjeeling tea referred to as the champagne of teas, this is exactly the type of...” Read full tasting note
We selected this Darjeeling Castleton Estate First Flush, plucked in 2014, for our February Dark boxes. The appearance of this tea is that of small neat leaves with plenty of black and green colour. Once brewed, this tea produces a bright light liquor with a strong chalky muscatel flavour and a hint of spice. The speciality of this tea estate is muscatel tea and this impacts the flavours that are found in their first and second flush teas, such as this particular one. It is really great to find muscatel flavours in a first flush Darjeeling and this tea does not disappoint. Muscatel flavours are present but without being overbearing. This coupled with low astringency and dry chalkiness of this tea means that this tea can really be described as having a champagne-like character!
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