Gopaldhara ftgfop-1 (special) Ex1 Darjeeling tea 1st flush 2014

Gopaldhara ftgfop-1 (special) Ex1 Darjeeling tea 1^st flush 2014

    Gopaldhara tea estate is one of the highest altitude tea garden in Darjeeling situated at the mirik valley of Darjeeling. It generally starts its first flush harvest slightly late than the other plantations in this valley. This beautiful plantation has mainly young clonal bushes and is known worldwide for its exotic quality Darjeeling, black, green, oolong and white teas.

      I am always thankful to the management of this plantation for frequently sending their tea samples to us for our tea tasting sessions, though Gopaldhara tea estate has been continuously making exclusive teas over the years but I personally think it has been blessed with high quality teas this year.

     The moment I tasted their 1^st and pure 1^st flush 2014 Gopaldhara ftgfop-1 (special) Ex-1 lot I was really pleased by its quality level and I immediately booked this excellent lot of tea.

     The further details of this exclusive tea are given on our website. In one simple word this a Gem among premium 1^st flush 2014 Darjeeling teas.

Gielle ftgfop-1 clonal Ex-1 Darjeeling tea 1st flush 2014:

Gielle ftgfop-1 clonal Ex-1 Darjeeling tea 1^st flush 2014:

   This garden is situated in the Teesta Valley area of Darjeeling district and is situated at a height of 3000 feet above sea level. This garden has been making exceptional high quality Darjeeling teas for the past 4-5 years. This garden has newly planted clonal and china bushes which are being used to make some the finest black, green, oolong and white Darjeeling teas.

  

      We had offered some of the finest batches of black teas in our list last year and our tea lover friends have appreciated and demanded for the high quality teas once again this year.

     We are very pleased to offer this fine lot of tea and we guarantee its high quality aroma, taste and freshness.

      I`m sure Tea lovers will really like this batch of tea this year. The further details of this batch of tea from the Gielle tea estate is given on our website.

     

Teesta Valley ftgfop-1 Ex-1 Darjeeling tea 1st flush 2014

Teesta Valley ftgfop-1 Ex-1 Darjeeling tea 1^st flush 2014

         Teesta Valley Tea Estate is one of the finest tea gardens in Darjeeling district. It is mostly famous for its high quality black and green teas. This plantation is on the eastern region of Darjeeling district. Mostly china bushes are found in this plantation. This is also one of the highest elevation gardens in Darjeeling, its slopes ranges from 2500 – 6500 feet above sea level.

     This year we have procured the 1^st and one of the best lots from this estate. This is a  very  well made tea from the highest elevation china bushes of this world famous plantation in Darjeeling. The dry leafs are bold, well twisted and has a very unique flowery aroma in this state. The dry leafs are slightly dark in colour since it has been plucked from the highest elevation fields of this plantation.

     When steeped for complete 4 minutes the cup release light yellow liquor. Each sip reminds of exotic flowers like rhododendrons and jasmine which further ends with a sweet rosy after taste.

 

    An extremely flowery and refreshing tea !

Puttabong Organic Moondrops 1st flush 2014 Darjeeling tea:

Puttabong Organic Moondrops 1^st flush 2014 Darjeeling tea:

     We are once again delighted to offer this super premium Darjeeling tea from this prestigious plantation of Darjeeling. Since the Puttabong tea estate is a very high elevation tea plantation in Darjeeling, it starts off with its 1^st flush teas slightly late than the other estates in Darjeeling. It has turned 100% organic since last 4 years. This prestigious plantation belongs to the Jayshree group of Company, India and is managed by some of the finest tea planters in the Darjeeling tea industry.

      This plantation is managed by Mr. Somani (Superintendant for the Puttabong and North Tukvar tea estates) who is a very popular and excellent tea maker.

     I was continuously in touch with Mr. Somani from the mid week of February for this particular batch of tea. Since the Puttabong Tea Estate is a very famous Darjeeling tea manufacturing garden so premium tea sellers from around the world are always in search for great batches of tea from this plantation. Especially a batch like this one has a crazy demand by the tea lovers around the world.

      I sincerely thank the management of this plantation for giving us the opportunity once again to market this awesome batch of tea once again as this is the 1^st batch of pure 1^st flush 2014 Darjeeling tea that has rolled out from this plantation this year.

    This premium batch of tea has been given a very special care by the tea makers of this plantation while manufacturing it. This tea is plucked from the high elevation, 100% AV2 clonal bushes of the plantation. It has been plucked at the early hours of the morning when the dew drops were present on the leafs. Only one leaf and a bud have been plucked to make this tea.

    The further detail of this tea has been given on our website. We can guarantee all tea lovers that this is a super awesome tea which will be appreciated by all tea lovers around the world.

Dooteriah sftgfop-1 Royal DJ-1 Darjeeling tea 1st flush 2014

Dooteriah sftgfop-1 Royal DJ-1 Darjeeling tea 1^st flush 2014

    We are really happy to offer the 1^st lot from this high elevation garden in Darjeeling. Dooteriah tea estate is one of the tea estates in Darjeeling which has fully matured china bushes. Over the years we have seen this garden making exceptional batches of tea. Our regular clients have enjoyed and appreciated teas from this garden in the past especially the batch from autumn 2013 was my personal favourite.

       I am very much thankful to Mr Yogdeep Gurung (General Manager) of Dooteriah and Kalej valley Tea estates for offering this batch to us. This particular batch of tea was plucked from the high elevation slopes of this plantation painfully by the expert pluckers of this plantation. Selective plucking was done to pluck only the tender most shoots and buds from the bushes to produce this awesome lot of tea.

     This fantastic lot of tea has created a benchmark for high quality teas that will be added to our list of teas later when we get more samples from other gardens.

     I personally love this tea and I am sure my tea lover friends will also like my choice as usual. The further details for this tea are given on our website.

Rohini (Exotic Spring) sftgfop-1 Ex-7 /Darjeeling tea 1st flush 2014

Rohini (Exotic Spring) sftgfop-1 Ex-7 /Darjeeling tea 1^st flush 2014

      The 1^st flush 2014 harvest started a bit early this year in the Kurseong valley of Darjeeling district. The Rohini tea estate in kurseong was the first to start off with the harvest. We are very lucky to taste each of the production samples from this plantation this year. The initial offerings were mixed invoices (with some winter leafs in it) but from the 6^th invoice this garden started producing the pure 1^st flush 2014 Darjeeling teas. We are offering Rohini teas in our list after almost 3 years and I must admit that the quality standards of this garden have gone higher this year.

     We are offering the Rohini (Exotic Spring) sftgfop-1 Ex-7 (the 7^th lot) this year. This is a very small lot of about 50kgs. This particular batch was manufactured on the 4^th of March 2014 and I am sure this tea will taste and smell even better after it matures within next 10 days.

      The further character details of this batch of tea is given on our website and we guarantee all tea lovers for its high flavour and rich taste.

An approach to 1st flush 2014 Darjeeling teas

An Approach to 1^st Flush 2014 Darjeeling teas:

  We are all very excited in the Darjeeling hills to see the winter pass away since the much awaited 1^st flush 2014 crop season is about to start. We are also expecting a fantastic 1^st flush 2014 Darjeeling tea harvest this year as we have received at least 2 winter rainfalls this year. This is a great sign for a successful harvest this year. It has also rained during the month of February in Darjeeling after almost 5 years.

          The 1^st flush season for every Darjeeling estates is very important as this is the main harvest which fetches them high prices for their quality production. Some of the gardens in the lower portion of Darjeeling hills starts producing their 1^st flush teas by March 1^stweek but the teas produced and offered before the mentioned period is mostly mixed leafs from the winter harvest and very small amount of real 1^st flush teas are produced before the 1^st week of March.. For a true 1^st flush harvest every garden has to get rid of the old leafs of winter from their bushes and once the whole section of the plantation gets rid of their old leafs then the real and true 1^st flush harvest starts and we have noticed from last 2 decades that this harvest never starts before 1^st week-2^nd week of March.

         It is slightly warmer now in February in Darjeeling than the month of January and the right temperature difference between day and night for a good 1^st flush crop is about 9-11 degrees Celsius. Teas produced from the lower elevation garden looks more green in colour since the leafs contains more chlorophyll and the teas produced from high elevation are slightly darker is colour and contains lots of silver tips.

         A very good and well made 1^st flush tea should have well twisted greenish leafs and lots of silver tips. The liquor of the tea should be light golden (almost like champagne) colour and the aroma should be tenderly flowery/ fruity and a slight astringency should remain on the palate as an after taste.

   

          We have already started tasting some samples from few low elevation gardens in Darjeeling and personally feel that the true 1^st flush have not started coming yet. As usual we are eagerly waiting for exclusive 1^st flush teas from high elevation and reputed plantations of Darjeeling.

         We request all our valuable tea lover friends who have been blindly trusting us and buying our high quality teas from us from our online store or our retail store in Darjeeling to have patience and wait our list of true and high quality 1^st flush 2014 Darjeeling teas.