Margaret`s Hope (Spring Delight) white tea 1st flush 2013

Margaret`s Hope (Spring Delight) white tea 1^st flush 2013

      I am really delighted to offer this awesome white tea from the world famous Darjeeling tea garden Margaret`s Hope tea estate. This exclusive white tea is really unique in aroma and taste. We have carefully selected this exclusive white tea this season to show the world that even Darjeeling produces some of the finest white teas in the world. This exclusive white tea is absolutely not similar like the regular Darjeeling white teas which are actually only a cup of hot water, with a fancy name and unnecessarily expensive.

           This is a Tea Emporium guaranteed high quality Darjeeling white tea which will surely be appreciated by a black tea lover for its rich flavour and also by a green tea lover for its ultra smoothness.

          This batch of white tea has been plucked from the “Edenvale” section of the garden, which is world famous for its P312 clonal bushes. Teas produced from P312 clonal bushes have a rich and distinct flowery aroma. Only one leaf and a bud are plucked by the expert pluckers of this plantation to produce this batch. This white tea is withered for over 48 hours and has been hand rolled.

      The dry leafs are extremely beautiful which consists of bright white/greenish leafs and bold unbroken silver tips. The dry leafs releases flowery aroma of Jasmine flowers and fresh roses.

        When steeped for 3 minutes the cup releases light yellow liquor in the cup and rich aroma of honey and roses raises high above the cup. Each sip is extremely smooth with clear hints of jasmine flowers and roses and slight fruity hints of dates and chocolates which remains on the palate as an after taste.

      A true unique and super premium tea of the 1^st flush 2013 Darjeeling tea which should be missed by a true Darjeeling tea lover!

Kalej Valley (Upper) sftgfop-1 ch. DJ-3/1st flush 2013 Darjeeling tea

Kalej Valley (Upper) sftgfop-1 ch. DJ-3/1^st flush 2013 Darjeeling tea

         We are very proud as well as happy to offer a superb lot of 1^st flush 2013 Darjeeling tea from this plantation of Darjeeling. Kalej Valley and Dooteriah plantation in Darjeeling belongs to the Alchemist group of companies. The Kalej Valley tea estate is situated at a height of 2800 feet from the sea level and has china (camellia sinensis) bushes which are over 80 years old in age and are extremely matured and conceives some of the finest traditional Darjeeling teas during every harvest season.

        We are extremely happy to provide this lot of tea as we are seeing each season that most of the high quality exotic teas are being produced from the young clonal bushes and clonal teas are known for one distinct character either it is fruity with notes of different fruits or flowery with hints of aroma of different flowers. The teas made from the old china bushes does not have ornamental  look like the clonals but has multiple layers of flavours within a single cup of tea if the tea is manufactured properly.  Slight mistake during the manufacturing of a tea plucked from the china bushes often makes the tea astringent in the cup or sometimes simply bitter.

     We are really thankful to Mr. Gurung (Senior Manager) of the Kalej Valley and Dooteriah tea estates for giving us an opportunity to taste an excellent tea like this and to be very honest we have seen a perfect china variety 1st flush tea made so perfectly after many years.

    This tea is plucked from 100% pure china bushes of this high elevation garden in Darjeeling. The dry leafs and shoots of this early lot of tea is greenish in appearance and has a bold look in this state. The dry leafs also releases mouth watering and delicious aroma of almonds and dry pine leafs in this state. When steeped for about 3 minutes this exceptional tea gives out bright yellowish liquor in the cup. Each sip reminds of fruity hints of green apples, cherries and guavas and ends with mellow after taste.

       I am personally very satisfied with this lot of traditional 1^st flush 2013 darjeeling tea and I am sure my tea lover friends will like it too!

Gopaldhara Wonder Tea 1st flush 2013 Darjeeling tea

Gopaldhara Wonder tea 1^st flush 2013:

       I am really excited to offer this premium lot of exclusive 1^st flush 2013 Darjeeling tea from the Gopaldhara plantation of Darjeeling. The Gopaldhara plantation in Darjeeling is situated at the Mirik Valley of Darjeeling District. It is situated at an elevation of 3200 feet from the sea level and is famous for its young clonal teas specially made from the AV2 and P312 clonal tea bushes.

         This exclusive tea is a very small batch of tea manufactured after the yellow/winter leafs was cleared from tea bushes. This batch is plucked from the 100% young clonal AV2 clonal bushes of this plantation. The leafs were withered for over 36 hours on the withering beds as a result of which it has a very bright greenish appearance and consists of bold silver tips.

        When this excellent tea is steeped for 3 minutes. It gives out light and bright yellowish/greenish liquor in the cup. Each sip is extremely fruity and with each sip one can immediately feel the hints of mangoes, ripe bananas and pineapples which further ends with a fruity and sweet aftertaste on the palate.

        I am really very thankful to Mr. Rishie Saria (The Owner and a planter) for offering this lot to us and I also congratulate him and his team of tea makers for creating such an excellent lot of tea.

     This is an excellent tea of the 1^st flush 2013 Darjeeling tea harvest and I assure all tea lovers that this excellent batch of tea really stands up to its name Gopaldhara Wonder Tea.A real wonderful tea.

North Tukvar Clonal Delight sftgfop-1 /LC -1/ 1st Flush 2013 Darjeeling Tea

North Tukvar Clonal Delight sftgfop-1 LC-1 / 1^st flush 2013 Darjeeling

       We are once again very happy to have this excellent lot of 1^st flush 2013 Darjeeling tea in our list of teas. After rejecting several samples from this plantation last month finally we have found the tea we were expecting from this traditional garden in Darjeeling.

  

        North Tukvar is actually a very big tea garden in Darjeeling and it took about 20-25 days to clear all the yellow/winter leafs from its bushes and finally we were offered the first sample of the pure 1^st flush 2013 tea from this plantation and without any doubt as soon as I tasted the tea I fell in love with this one. Tea Lovers who liked the Puttabong clonal queen 1^st flush 2012 last year from our list will definitely fall in love with this one.

        This particular batch of tea is plucked from the AV2 and BB 157 young clonal bushes of this plantation which are very young. The young clonal bushes were planted in the year 2008 so the made tea is very attractive in appearance and has a very high aroma in the cup and also in the dry leaf state.

       I and my team of tea tasters are working very hard to procure the finest teas. On an average we are choosing 1 out of 9-12 tea samples which are being send by the gardens every day.

      I am sure my tea lover friend will like this batch of tea too. I can guarantee that this is one of the champagne of teas in the 1^st flush 2013 Darjeeling tea harvest.

Puttabong Organic Moondrops/ LC-1 /1st flush 2013 Darjeeling tea

Puttabong Organic Moondrops / LC-1 1^st flush 2013 Darjeeling tea

        I am really honoured and excited to have this exclusive early invoice pure 1^st flush tea from one of our favourite organic plantation in Darjeeling. After tasting several pre-1^st flush teas from the Puttabong Tea Estate we are extremely proud to offer this excellent lot of tea which is exclusively made for us.

         This is a very special lot of tea plucked from the high elevation AV2 young clonal bushes of this plantation in Darjeeling. Only one leaf and a bud are plucked by the expert pluckers of this plantation during the early hours of the morning to procure the tender shoots and buds from the young clonal bushes.  This excellent tea is hand crafted and no- machine work is involved in any part of its manufacture.

        The dry leafs have bold leafs and large silver tips and releases a delicious fruity aroma in this state. When steeped for 3 minutes the cup releases bright yellow/golden liquor in the cup.

Each sip gives out a fruity note of ripe mangoes, slightly buttery and rosy and ends with a sweet note of sugarcane on the palate.

     Once again I`m thankful to Mr.Amit (Manager, Puttabong Tea Estate) and Mr.Somani (Superintendant, Puttabong and North Tukvar Tea Estate) for making such an exclusive tea and understanding the quality standards of the teas that we offer each year in our list.

      We guarantee all our tea lover friends that everyone who tries this awesome tea will fall in love with it .This is truly a TeaEmporium signature tea of the 1^st flush 2013 harvest season.

An Approach to 1st flush 2013 Darjeeling tea

          We are all very excited in the Darjeeling hills to see the winter pass away since the much awaited 1^st flush 2013 crop season is about to start. Last year since the winter started off early so all most all the gardens had to stop their tea production by the 1^st week of December 2012.

          The 1^st flush season for every Darjeeling estates is very important as this harvest 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^st week 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 leafs. 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 2013 Darjeeling teas.

          We will inform you all through newsletters and our Face book page.

Arrival of Autumn Flush 2012 Darjeeling teas

        The autumn flush Darjeeling tea harvest started from the 2^nd week of October 2012 this year. We started tasting a lot of tea samples from various different plantations in Darjeeling from the very moment when the major harvest had started .The initial batches or the pre-autumn flush tea batches that were produced were as usual fairly nice in quality and quantity but all of a sudden the temperature in Darjeeling started falling and due to which we had a draught like situation in all the gardens in Darjeeling. This resulted in fall of production of high quality in bigger quantities in most of the plantations.

           We have been really lucky to be in Darjeeling and select our list of fine Autumn Flush 2012 Darjeeling teas. We have strictly concentrated in this harvest in teas which have a rich flavour and taste and above all since we have offered some of the finest quality teas during the 1^st and the 2^nd flush harvests, we have done the same during this harvest but at a very reasonable rates. We have announced the following teas from the various plantations in our list of Autumn Flush 2012 Darjeeling teas given below:

1.Puttabong Clonal / Organic sftgfop-1 Ex77:

A super premium Autumn Flush Darjeeling tea plucked from the pure P312 clonal bushes of this premium plantation in Darjeeling. The dry leafs are well sorted and twisted and has a rich chocolate like aroma in this state.
When steeped for about four minutes it gives out a dark golden orange liquor in the cup. Each sip reminds of dry fruits like almonds and ends with a rich muscatel taste and a rose like after taste that lingers on the palate for a long time.
A superb autumn flush Super fine Darjeeling tea of the harvest

2. Upper Namring GFTGFOP-1 / GREEN TEA EX-57

This is a very well made green tea plucked from the young clonal bushes of this plantation in Darjeeling. The dry leafs are sorted very well and are slightly large in size. When steeped for about two and a half minutes this exotic Darjeeling Green Tea releases a bright yellow/greenish liquor in the cup. Each sip reminds of exotic fresh fruits and leaves a unique sweetness on the palate as an after taste.
An excellent quality fresh and fruity Darjeeling Green tea of the harvest.

3.Dooteriah sftgfop-1

An excellent quality pure Autumnal Darjeeling tea plucked from the high elevation pure china bushes of the plantation. The dry leafs are high withered and well sorted as a result of which it has a slightly greenish appearance. The dry leafs also contains small silver tips and has a refreshing fruity aroma in this state.
When steeped for about four minutes it releases bright orange liquor in the cup. Each sip is extremely fruity which reminds of fresh and exotic fruits and further ends with a slight hint of ripe mangoes.
An excellent quality Autumn flush Darjeeling tea meant for the perfect afternoon cup!

Giddapahar sftgfop-1 ch.spl. DJ280

A well made tea plucked from the matured china bushes of the high elevation plantation in Darjeeling. The dry leafs are slightly larger in size and has a fruity aroma in this state.
When steeped for about 4 minutes this excellent tea releases an orange liquor in the cup. Each sip is super smooth which further reminds of honey and oranges and leaves a unique muscatel after taste on the palate.
A superb Classic Muscatel Autumn flush tea of the season!

Gopaldhara sftgfop-1 DJ 298

A classic style pure Darjeeling Autumn flush tea plucked from the high elevation china bushes of this wonderful plantation in Darjeeling. The dry leafs are slightly small in size which has a fresh spice and chocolate like aroma in this state.
When steeped for about four minutes this exotic tea releases bright orange liquor in the cup and gives out a very delicious aroma of dry fruits. Each sip reminds of fresh autumn leafs, spices and a slight hint of chocolates which stays on the palate for a long time.
A perfect cup of Darjeeling Autumn flush tea to start off the day!

We have tried our best as usual to procure these fine teas and we sincerely hope our tea lover friends will like it too.

    We invite all Darjeeling tea lovers to try out our list of Autumn Flush 2012 Darjeeling teas