Nepal Black (Organic) from DAVIDsTEA

Nepal Black (Organic)

Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
Not available
Flavors
Astringent, Honey, Mineral, Smooth, Sweet, Ash, Malt, Smoke, Tannin, Wet Earth, Wood, Wet Wood, Brisk, Dark Chocolate, Hazelnut, Chocolate, Musty, Nuts, Earth, Creamy, Dark Bittersweet, Bread, Bitter, Dry Grass, Hay, Molasses, Flowers, Cocoa, Apricot, Fruity, Peach, Maple
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Bulk, Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Medium
Certification
Kosher, Organic
Edit tea info Last updated by bree
Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 30 sec 6 g 17 oz / 502 ml

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165 Tasting Notes View all

  • “Huh. Wow. Steeping this for 2 minutes at 195F gives me delightful honey flavour and no bad stuff. I like it! Plain!! (I better like it. I have an other 50g bag sitting in the cupboard!)” Read full tasting note
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  • “1TB for 450mL water. 6 minute steep, 98C water. Rating: 95. Yum. I wasn’t expecting this to live up to the hype, but yeah, it’s really nice. A bit Darjeeling-y, which is not a surprise, given that...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Very first order of the agenda here, can we all please agree that the country is called NEpal and that there is no such country as NApal? Thank you. This seems a common error, and some people do it...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Ever have one of those tea days where nothing goes as planned? not a disaster exactly, just not what you expected. That was today. See, I had planned to bring in one of the many samples I received...” Read full tasting note
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How it tastes
Smooth, full-bodied black tea flavor with sweet honey notes

Good things are brewing in the Highlands of Nepal. Like this handmade black tea, a DAVIDsTEA exclusive from a family-owned tea garden named Jun Chiyabari. From the first sip you’ll notice the tea’s rich, sweet, honey-like flavor. Even better? This little tea garden has set up a ton of community programs to benefit local schools, underprivileged families and the elderly. Now that’s good.

What makes it great
• Now a give-back tea 1% of proceeds will go to our Nepal Water Project!
• From the first sip you’ll notice its rich, sweet, honey-like flavor.
• This tea comes from a small family estate in Nepal that uses its earnings for community programs to benefit schools, underprivileged families and the elderly.
• This caffeinated black tea is a great way to energize.

Ingredients: Organic black tea from Nepal

About DAVIDsTEA View company

DavidsTea is a Canadian specialty tea and tea accessory retailer based in Montreal, Quebec. It is the largest Canadian-based specialty tea boutique in the country, with its first store having opened in 2008.

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This was my first black tea I tried that was from the Nepal region, so I was really excited to see what this would taste like.

I didn’t want to get my hopes up so I tried not to have high expectations. I was pleasantly surprised when I took the first sip and my taste buds started to dance in delight.

Nepal Black is delicious!

When brewed it had a lovely dark golden honey/medium to dark orange colour to it. The taste itself was pretty smooth and sweet. I didn’t even feel the need to add in any milk or sweetener. At times it also felt like I could definitely taste honey.

The tea leaves also look very interesting. They are rolled, long pieces of black tea leaves. This was also a fun one to watch unfurl in my clear glass tea mug that I used.
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I’ve found that most Nepalese teas are reminiscent of Darjeelings but this is much more like an Assam. It has that characteristic malty robustness, though it doesn’t have the bitterness that some strong Assams carry as I can enjoy this tea perfectly fine without adding milk to soften it. As other people have noted, there definitely a molasses undertone to it that’s quite enjoyable. DT found a good one.
Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 15 sec 1 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML
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Delightfull, not full bodied or bitter, even if over steeped
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This one is really nice. Some days you just need a smooth, quality black tea without all the frills.
I only had a tiny sample of this one, but I think I’ll end up going back for more. It’s something I could see myself drinking in the mornings on a daily basis. So many of the teas in the 24 days of Tea calendar were either super minty (no good for my stomach) or so sweet that I couldn’t see myself buying more. This one was a pleasant change to that pattern.

Flavors: Earth, Malt, Smooth

Preparation
3 min, 0 sec 2 tsp 14 OZ / 414 ML
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Evol Ving Ness
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I would recommend DT’s Honey Black as well, if you can get some before it disappears for good.

Kristal
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I agree, the 24 days of tea had too many flavoured teas for my taste. I guess that is their niche, though.

M
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I will definitely need to try the Honey Black. That sounds right up my alley.

Evol Ving Ness
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If you are interested, you need to get on it as it is being retired. You may find it in DT shops or online still though.

M
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I’ll take a look online, thanks! Sadly I’m nowhere near a store these days.

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ashmanra’s monthly sipdown challenge
March 2023 → a shelf staple tea

One of my absolute favorite teas, if not my very favorite (at least of those still available). I’ve already finished my first cup before even finishing my note. I’ve said this before, but to me it tastes just like Hershey’s chocolate syrup. A pure delight!

Flavors: Chocolate

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 7 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML
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ashmanra
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Wow! Tastes like Hershey’s and not even flavored?

Shae
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It really does! Every time, without fail. I love this one so much.

ashmanra
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It sounds awesome!

ashmanra
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It made my wishlist!

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Day 10/24 (Falling a little behind)

I really enjoyed this one. In fact, it’s probably my favourite straight black that I’ve ever had. A little malty, kind of sweet, kind of bready—like dipping a warm baguette in honey. No astringency at all. Might even consider picking up some of this.

Flavors: Bread, Honey

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec
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Yes! I was so glad I bought a big tin of this one a few weeks ago. I think they may have used smaller leaves in the tins though, because the leaves in my tin are long. It’s definitely one of my favourites as a straight black.

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Day 10/24 of 24 Days of Tea

Darn, another tea I can’t really drink :( Brewed up a big mug for my husband then took 2 gulps to do a review.

If I was able to drink black tea, I would love this one. Nice body, and a slight bit of astringency (I brewed at 200F, Bitterness would probably be eliminated if I went down to 190F). This would be nice to have in the morning, plus if I’m not mistaken this comes from a small farm in Nepal. I really like when I can get teas (green teas for me) from small family run farms :)
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200 °F / 93 °C 4 min, 0 sec 17 OZ / 500 ML
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Here’s to hoping your tea will come soon!

I’ve been a little disappointed with the teas lately. I’m not sure if it’s because they are mostly teas I’d never pick, or if they really aren’t great in general.

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I’ve noticed the vast majority of the calendar is flavoured teas (whether it be fruits, spice or candy) which is DAVIDs niche. Most of the teas I own outside of the calendar are straight greens and “medicinal herbals”. Maybe that’s it?

Alyssa
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Yeah, I think so. It makes me think I need to look beyond David’s once this calendar is done.

Kristal
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Yeah, I still find there are some great staples with DAVIDs, but I am quickly developing a love for International House of Tea which focusses on wellness and natural, high quality ingredients. Steeped tea is ok for a couple blends, but a lot of their stuff is flavoured as well :/. Surprisingly, I’ve really enjoyed some Celestial Seasonings Tea despite them being dirt cheap.

Alyssa
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Looks like they have a great selection. It reminds me of the little tea store I used to frequent at the mall in North Bay when I lived there. Right after I left, they were replaced by David’s Tea.

Kristal
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Aw, so sad :( Ironically I was talking to the owner of IHOT on facebook and she said they couldn’t have been happier when DAVIDs came to town because it got more people interested in tea, therefore their business went up in sales.

Mookit
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Why aren’t you able to drink black tea? :(

Kristal
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I have stomach problems + acid reflux and I find Black/pu’erh teas to be harsh on it. Green seems to be alright though so at least I have that!

Mookit
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Sorry to hear that, but I’m glad you’re able to drink green! Most of my favourite teas are green or herbal, plus there’s just so many different teas apart from black. :)

Kristal
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Exactly! Always a lot of options :)

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What a pleasant surprise! I have never been a fan of straight black tea but this has changed my mind. This does not have the heavy malt, astringent, bitter taste a lot of other black teas have. This one is mellow, gentle, and softly sweet. It is helped along considerably by a little added sweetener like agave, but only modestly. Some of the dry tea leaves have golden tips which makes it beautiful looking, too!
Part of the DAVIDsTEA permanent collection.

Flavors: Honey, Malt

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 15 sec 2 tsp 8 OZ / 250 ML
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Advent calendar [10/24]

I had purchased this tea long before the advent calendar, so I don’t feel the need to review it again. I find it to be a nicely flavoured plain black tea. This is something that DAVIDs seems to have issues with. Perhaps there’s no market for plain blacks when the main customer base prefers funky teas.

Flavors: Honey, Molasses

Preparation
Boiling 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML
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Kristal
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I find they do have some great, straight green teas, but yes their customer base tends to be those who like flavoured stuff.

Alyssa
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Which are your favourite greens from there? I’m just getting back into greens now that I’ve figured out how to enjoy them best. I’ve discovered I’m really picky about greens and whites because they seem to taste infinitely better when sipped in small cups from a large cast iron teapot.

Kristal
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I must admit I’m not personally into matcha, but I otherwise some of their most expensive teas are my favourites. Butterfly Jasmine + dragon Pearls are lovely jasmine blends, Gyokuro Yamishiro is so buttery (but very delicate so carful with steeping!), roasted gyokuro is a little bolder but very nice, Lung Ching was a nice, gentle, limited edition tea, and for cheaper, but still nice, grassy blends their Japanese sencha + dragonwell are both lovely. I’m also going to retry Sencha Ashikubo cause I remember that being very nice.

(you’ll notice that all of the ones I chose are non-flavoured blends other than Jasmine, haha).

Kristal
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double checking the website, I actually didn’t mind a few flavoured blends: genmaicha with it’s popcorn flavour, some velvet morning with it’s citrus addition, countess of seville for it’s earl-grey flavour, and it’s been a while but I remember liking cold zing for it’s lemongrass + citrus addition.

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Yes! My favourite green of theirs is the dragon pearls. I have not tried butterfly jasmine. I got my mom to buy a 100g tin of it last year. It was a big step because she and my dad dislike nearly any kind of tea. I love genmaicha but I have oodles of bags of it.

Thank you for the suggestions. :)

Kristal
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No problem! I seriously recommend butterfly jasmine :) I always use my points for expensive teas so last quarter I got $60 (of butterfly jasmine) for free. It was awesome.

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Man, this is an interesting tea! Each steep tastes slightly different. It’s got some sweet notes to it which I am loving.
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