An Approach to autumn flush 2014 Darjeeling tea:
The month of
October in Darjeeling as well as whole of India has been a festive season. The 1st
week started with the Dashera festival and the climatic conditions in Darjeeling
got a bit colder leaving the monsoon harvest behind. We celebrated the 3rd
week of October with the Diwali festival “the festival of lights”.
We generally wait for the Diwali festival
to pass on for the true and peak time autumn teas. The teas produced before these
time frames are the pre-autumn teas with minimum autumn character. We have been
continuously tasting tea samples from over 45 plantations in Darjeeling and we
have received the news from all the plantations that this year the Autumn Flush
2014 tea havest will only start from the last weeks of October since the tea
factories were closed during the festival season.
A peak time or
pure autumn flush tea should be of coppery black colour in leaf appearance and
should also look a bit dehydrated in this state. After steeping, the liquor in
the cup should be golden orange in colour and the most important factor is the
aroma which should be a bit roasted with a very mild pine line flavour.
The autumn
flush harvest is best when the climatic conditions are much colder than the 1st
and the 2nd flush harvest. The minimum temperature difference between
the day and night should be from 09- 12 degrees Celsius for this harvest.
As usual we
are trying our best to maintain the standards of the teas which would be
available in our list of exotic Autumn Flush 2014.We request all our tea lover
friends to wait for our pure and true list of peak time autumn flush 2014 Darjeeling
teas.
As usual we will procure and inform you about the fine
teas once they reach our ware house.
