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Jillian

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Darjeeling Margaret's Hope FTGFOP 1 from Specifically Tea

Jillian drank Darjeeling Margaret's Hope FTGFOP 1 by Specifically Tea

This ‘whole leaf’ tea isn’t very whole – the leaves look pretty torn up. The flavour is…interesting. Light for a black tea but the muscatel flavour may be a bit too much to take without milk and it makes the tea quite….sharp (for lack of a better word).

All in all I’m pretty ambivalent towards this tea, I’ll have to try it with milk and see if that improves things.

2009-10-03 17:09:19 -0400

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East Side Rob 2009-10-22 23:51:09 -0400

That sharpness you talk about is often referred to as “bright” when describing Darjeelings. Margaret’s Hope is a renowned tea estate, but I’m not sure they’re having a particularly good crop this year. Their teas last year were phenomenal, but I had a first-flush FTGFOP earlier this year (still have some left actually) that was just O.K. Try a short steep if yours is a first-flush tea, three minutes or slightly less.

Margaret’s Hope, unlike the other Darjeeling growers, has a high proportion of Assamica tea varietals in their tea (as opposed to the Chinese varietals used by the other Darjeeling estates). A had a second-flush Darjeeling from Makaibari, and it was much better. But that sort of thing can very greatly from year to year with single-estate teas.

Jillian 2009-10-23 20:31:55 -0400

I think this is a 2nd flush tea (though I’m not terribly familiar with darjeelings). I did try it with less time today, and my comments are on that entry.

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I’m a university student in her mid-twenties who’s currently working her way toward a Bachelor of Natural Resource Science degree. I love both science and science-fiction and I’m a history nut on top of that. Maybe I should just call myself a nerd and leave it there. ;)

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