Everyone has a certain level of caffeine tolerance and caffeine in Darjeeling Tea is determined by the type of tea bush, how it is grown and processed. Caffeine content is exponential in bud followed by 1st leaf, second and third leaf in the order. It reduces as the shoot gets older. Please note, tea creaming is determined by caffeine and the cup briskness as well due to its association with Theaflovins and Thearubins. Well can’t cover all here (do take a look at the tea health benefits of Darjeeling), please do take a look at our standard advise below.
Darjeeling’s name stands tall because of it’s flavor profile. Darjeeling has complex underlying flavors which comes broadly in fruity, nutty and floral flavors.
Tasting of Darjeeling Tea from a list of Darjeeling Tea Gardens is a refined skill considering numerous variables. The subtle and delicate flavor nuances in each invoice of tea relate a story about its creation to the experienced taster. But eventually, the likeness and taste of tea narrows down to an individual palate liking.
Tasting of Darjeeling is fairly easy if done using standard way, but if you want to get into the inner depths then we recommend you a post we wrote on How to make Darjeeling Tea. We cannot include the details here as it can prove to be quite lengthy considering other points on help choose tea for you. Click the button to know more about indepth tea tasting for Darjeeling.
If you are on a budget, but would like to buy premium Darjeeling without digging too deep into your pockets, then here’s where we will help you out. Darjeeling is considered as one of the most exclusive as well as expensive tea in the world, claiming to be the “Champagne of Tea”. But there are always a grade specified which in turn also affects the price of tea.
Affordable Teas: Affordable teas, but without compromising in quality.
Ah when it comes to quality we stand tall. Most of our teas are personally hand picked after vigorous tea tasting sessions. Among hundreds we only choose a few which marks its highest quality, but among these as well are various individual tea garden varieties which have their own individual profiles.
Example we choose Castleton Moonlight which is of highest quality, but also choose Castleton Muscatel. Its one tea garden, but with different varieties which is totally different from one another.
If you are inviting friends, family or celebrating and don’t want to spend much and walk on a budget, but give a good tea experience to them, then let us help choose tea for you. We would like to recommend teas as mentioned above in “Price of Tea”. We have some lovely affordable teas which can be for such occasions or for your daily and regular consumption.
But if you are looking for high quality teas then we suggest you look at the teas mentioned under “Quality Teas” before this.
