Recommended
This 2017 harvest is actually DJ-16, which I think means that it’s a slightly earlier invoice. In the bag, it smells like dried flowers, herbs, and stonefruit. After a 3:30 steep at 195F, these flavours become more prominent. There’s not a lot of astringency, and the peach and muscatel make this tea pleasantly sweet, balancing out the herbaceousness that I think is characteristic of FF Darjeelings.
A five-minute second steep is surprisingly good, though I’ve learned from experience not to push it beyond that to “extract all the flavour!”
Flavors: Drying, Floral, Herbaceous, Muscatel, Peach, Stonefruit
Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C
3 min, 30 sec
2 tsp
16 OZ / 476 ML
