Garden: Gopaldhara Tea Estate
Tea Type: Rare hand-rolled spring tea
Flush: First Flush
Cultivar: Old chinary bushes and china hybrid
Invoice no.: RTE-02/24
Date of picking: April 2024
Grade: FTGFOP1 Moondrop
Elevation: 5500 – 7000 Ft.
Oxidation: Oxidized but all by hand without any machinery works
Specialty: Hand-rolled and shuffled tea, no machinery involved and mostly preferred sun-drying
Gopaldhara Herbaceous Spring Delight | First Flush Darjeeling Olong Tea | Master Series (RTE-02)
$7.95 / 25 gms paper box
This is an exquisite Darjeeling fresh herbaceous oolong tea , made from old chinary clones at 5500 – 7000 feet of Gopaldhara Tea Estate. This is one of the finest quality first flush tea and these bushes are fresh out of hibernation from a prolonged winter. To make these kinds of teas we mostly preferred sun-drying and hand oxidation. So, the quantity of this type of rare lots is always very less.
The dried greenish leaves are brewed into a yellow cup that gives an amazingly clean cup with fresh spring flavour. You can quickly feel the taste was super floral and creamy with notes of orchids in each sip. This Herbaceous Oolong Tea is slightly vegetal but in a sweet, almost herbaceous but there was no bitterness or astringency at all. The mouth feel was somewhat thick with a clean and refreshing finish.