We recently just brought back a few fan favourite Garden To Cup teas for the Spring season, and with them we’re introducing this new Darjeeling that will be a part of the core assortment. It’s a blend of First Flush Darjeeling teas that produce an overall medium bodied cup with crisp, mineral notes and a pleasantly soft and sweet floral quality. Makes me think of Spring rain and florals, or fresh mountain air. Very, very smooth without as much as astringency as Darjeeling blends can often have – this is meant to make it a little more approachable for someone possibly less familiar with this tea type while also having the benefit of meaning you can steep it for a long time in a method like a giant Western teapot (for high tea, perhaps) without it becoming harsh for quite some time.
Friendly reminder that I do not numerically rate DAVIDsTEA blends as I’m currently employed there and it would be an obvious conflict of interest. Any blends you see with numerical ratings were rated prior to my employment there. These reviews are a reflection of my personal thoughts and feelings regarding the teas, and not the company’s.