Darjeeling Special Summer Muscatel Black Tea
description
Every summer, the Darjeeling tea gardens leave you spoilt for choice when it comes to high-quality muscatels. This season, our master blenders have taken the best muscatels to create a tea that captures the most distinguishing features of the muscatel. And so you have the Special Muscatel that sings with woody-tart flavors and notes of red fruit and melon rind.
the experience

liquor
aroma
Lifted notes of wood and dried drupes and hints of wood spice
appearance
Amber
taste
The liquor is full-bodied, astringent, complex yet well-rounded. A sour note is apparent throughout the length of the cup. However, mellower notes of wood, orchids, and grape seed can be picked up in the middle. Towards the end, a note of melon rind is also discernible.
COMPLEMENTS
Semi-hard cheeses, berries, eggs, tart, pancake, lasagna
dry leaf
aroma
Marked by a note of dried red berries in the attack and toasted cashew in the release
appearance
Mix of well-rolled brown and black leaves; some with silver tips
infusion
aroma
Vegetal with notes of melon rind and grape seed
appearance
Broken coppery leaves with olive green hues

steeping notes
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cold filtered O2 Rich Water |
Temperature |
Tea Leaves |
Time |
hot |
6 fl oz |
185F -194F |
1.5 tsp / 0.09 oz |
4 mins |
Recommended number of steeps - 1
condiments
Lemon
Drink Plain
Sugar
Honey
Morning
High
Hot
Second
Muscatel
