: Black teas are fully-oxidized teas. Legends recounts that in the seventeenth century, a cargo of tea that arrived in London from China, at the end of a particularly long voyage, had gone mouldy in its boxes. Originally green, it had turned black but in spite of this the English found it very much to their taste and immediately re-ordered it.
Though improbable, this anecdote does point the way to China, where this method of manufacturing black tea originated. In the nineteenth century, when they began the cultivation and manufacture of tea in India, the British first made use of the Chinese labor, but they quickly perfected the tools needed to mechanize the different stages of the so-called ‘ORTHODOX’ process.
The leaves are processed in six different operations: Withering, Rolling, Riddling, Oxidation, Firing and Sorting.
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Out of stockThis Classic Muscatel is a perfect well manufactured second flush tea. The leaves have the coppery black appearance with few greenish shades in between. The aroma is like baked nuts with a very sweet floral aroma.The taste is complex and thick. Its a mouthful of prominent flavors.
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Goomtee Muscatel Wonder MV comes from MUSCATEL VALLEY an out division of Goomtee Tea Estate. This division is also known as Mohan Majua. Due to the high elevation of this division the teas are very good. The cold weather and continuous cloud cover over the valley the growth of leaves is very slow. This results in very thick and complex flavor which is very different from other teas.
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Castleton Moonlight is probably one of the most popular and exotic tea of Darjeeling. Only about 500 Kg of this variety is produced every year and the demand is almost 10 times more than the production. This batch of tea comes from the Av2 Clone plantations of Dhobi Tar section of the garden which is known for producing the best quality clonal white teas
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Out of stockThe dry leaves are enough to mesmerize you. Long curled blackish - mauve color leaves with strong sweet musk aroma is just too good to resist. When brewed for 4 minutes what we get is beautiful amber liquor with musky peachy grapy aroma.