Singbulli First Flush Chinary Flowery Darjeeling Tea

About Singbulli First Flush FTGFOP1 China

A first grade 2021 classic Singbulli First Flush offering from Singbulli Tea Estate. Singbulli is famous for its First Flush teas. Most of the Darjeeling Tea connoisseurs know about Singbulli’s First Flush quality. Even other tea gardens in Darjeeling are aware of Singbulli Tea Estate First Flush quality teas. We bought a couple of teas from Singbulli categorized into clonals and china varieties. Along with this tea, we first did tea tastings of some clonals and picked a few like the Singbulli Thunder (a tea dedicated to our company, Thunderbolt Tea by the tea maker of Singbulli, Mr. Mantri), an awesome tea and some like Singbulli Clonal Flowery. The latter is a marvelous clonal tea built for budget conscious. This Singbulli First Flush FTGFOP1 China as the name suggests is from the china cultivar and has the classic Darjeeling Tea characteristics pertaining to First Flush. A lovely tea that surely doesn’t dig deep into your pockets and also without compromising on quality.

As reminiscent of classic Darjeeling Tea, this Singbulli First Flush offering has an overall greenish appearance. It’s a beautiful blend of light and dark-bottle green colored tea leaves. It has good sorting and has a definite bloom with considerable amount of silver tips. Tea leaves in classic tea varieties are always lesser in tips than clonals. It has well rolled and twisted tea leaves. Being a classic china graded tea, the tea leaves are smaller than its clonal counterpart. It has a sweet and fresh aroma accompanied by some spicy elements. Somewhat caramellic (milky) and honey toned as well. It has layers of smell of fresh flowers of different origin. It has a floral character with undertones of nuttiness like the almonds.

This Darjeeling First Flush has a marvelous lively bright infusion with an overall greenish appearance. The overall greenish appearance comes mixed with different colors of light and bottle green. Has a slight hint of light brown as well. It has sweet honey toned aroma. Also accompanied by faint fruity characteristics which resembles orange peels. This Singbulli tea comprises of complex floral scent layered one upon another. It has some mint like characteristics as well. A mild and sweet nutty nose is found. This nutty nose comes mixed with the essence of somewhat white chocolate in resemblance. Slight notes of spiciness is prominent.

It has a light golden-yellow cup which marks the sign of any good quality first flush tea. The reflective quality of liqor or in simple words the brightness of the cup is lively and fresh smelling. It has a beautiful floral aroma somewhat rosy in character. Slightly grassy, but well balanced by prominent sweet and nutty characteristics which resemble almonds. The cup is smooth with buttery mouth-feel. Some spicy hints are felt as well. Slight astringency is felt and a very mild bitterness, yet sweet in taste is observed. It leaves a sweet and buttery aftertaste at the tip of the tongue.

One great quality classic Darjeeling from one of Darjeeling’s finest tea producing tea garden – Singbulli Tea Estate. Don’t miss this, you’ll miss the real Darjeeling classic character for which Darjeeling First Flush is famous for. Its a highly affordable tea for your daily tea sipping routine. Also for those who are willing to delve into the world of Darjeeling without having to dig too deep into their pockets – Singbulli First Flush FTGFOP1 China is the best bet. Enjoy!