Darjeeling, tea
Darjeeling
 is a sort of black tea. It is grown in just about the city with
the same name, in northern mountain part of India, in Himalaya Mountains.
Englishmen often name
Darjeeling
, the best black tea - champagne among teas.
It has sated with aroma and fresh taste with gentle and at the same time
bright shades of tartness, and also very beautiful light infusion. In aromas
of Darjeeling is both flower, and nutty notes.
Today a word of Darjeeling -
the trade mark. Plantations are at height 1500 — 2000 meters above sea
level. With accurate brewing the light-colored drink with refined nutmeg,
slightly tart taste and flower aroma turns out. Such properties are
furnished with special conditions of growth of tea: a cold and moist
climate, a high-mountainous placement of plantations and features of soil.
Darjeeling
is called a «tea champagne». It is traditionally appreciated
above other black teas, especially in Great Britain and the former British
colonies. Recently the big share of tea of this class under rather high
prices is purchased by Japanese. The counterfeit
Darjeeling
represents the
big problem for world trade. The quantity of Darjeeling sold annually
exceeds 40 thousand tons while its manufacture makes all about 8-10 thousand
tons. Most of the imposters come from the Nepal, which shares some of
Darjeeling's characteristics but rarely measure up to the original. True
experts of Darjeeling are in big demand in a society as experts possess the
essential information and can specify, if that cup of original tea or a fake
one. The situation has caused a serious damage to the tea industry, planters
and workers with 150-year-old tea growing tradition.
First flush of
Darjeeling
is harvested in the middle of March after spring
rains. It has easy, soft taste and aroma. The second flush harvested in
June. Color of its infusion is amber. Taste gummier. Autumn flush, autumnal,
is harvested after a season of rains. It possesses less refined taste and
aroma. Sometimes also intermediate, in-betweens harvests exist, which gather
between these basic seasons.
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