Darjeeling - 2nd Flush - Black India - 2013 #3

Brewed with the Western method. Steeping times: 3 minutes, 6 minutes.

Aroma: I had a cold at the time, and my nose was stuffed. Couldn’t smell the dry leaf, but the liquor was fruity (indiscernible specifically), and the wet leaf aroma, jams.
Liquor: The color of lighter amber. Thin and clear. Bland flavors…smoke (not something I’d want in a Darjeeling), sugar, honey (too light). Heavy feeling but…not.

You’ll laugh at me when I tell you that I made this up and I’ve been working and I completely forgot I was taste testing a new tea, so I wasn’t paying attention to it, I was just drinking it.

It’s not blowing me out of the water, but it’s nice. It’s definitely on the positive side of drinkable. This is the best of the 2nd flush ones I’ve had so far. It’s closer to that muscatel flavor people keep saying these have, but it’s not quite what I expected it to be. This is a tea I would definitely drink if offered to me. I prefer the first flush, but I would not say no to the second flush.

And I completely overfilled my little glass that I’m using, and I dripped hot water everywhere. (I’m at home now, and I carried the full glass from the kitchen where I filled it to the front room where I’m working remotely, and ass the leaves were expanding, more and more hot water was dripping out. Fortunately, I only got a little bit on me, none on the cats.)