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“A sipdown! (M: 2, Y: 38) Eh. The first note? Have I ever shared this tea with someone or I drank it all alone? I don’t remember! Anyway, last year FF Darjeeling. Probably a good timing to sip it...” Read full tasting note
Makaibari First Flush 2022 SFTGFOP1 SPL is the premium selection of the spring picking 2021 at Makaibari Tea Estate in Darjeeling, India. Full-bodied, with round and soft mouthfeel. Up to an infusion period of 5 minutes, the Makaibari First Flush’s earthy notes, pervaded by sunny-floral sweetness, unfold without even a hint of a downside. Just like with other Makaibari teas, it is as if one could virtually taste the estate’s environment-friendly, biodynamic-health and environment-friendly cultivation practice.
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TeaGschwendnerA sipdown! (M: 2, Y: 38)
Eh. The first note? Have I ever shared this tea with someone or I drank it all alone? I don’t remember!
Anyway, last year FF Darjeeling. Probably a good timing to sip it down, as I have some 2023 FF too.
A funny story behind buying this tea. I have put it in to shopping basket in the webshop, reading it is my favorite Mokalbari, placed the order along with other teas; and then I have read in the invoice saying Makaibari. I went back to the tea shop and it was clearly marketed as Makaibari. I just read it wrong!
But decided to try it anyway, as back then I didn’t had any FF tea. And afterall, why not trying another tea garden.
In fact, I never loved this tea. It was quite highly astringent all the times, proper steeping parameters were working once, twice and then I had to change them again; it was fine and non-offensive tea, but it doesn’t gave me any particular impression. No fruity notes, no florals; just somehow astringent and sometimes even bitter tea.
Well, until today; when using last 4 grams and steeped for 3 minutes and it was round flavour with hints (but only hints!) of tropical fruits and again that creeping and, even for me, too high astringency.
