Good Afternoon Darlings,
Would you care for some Darjeeling? It is the tea title that you know marks a good quality tea, but you don’t know why. At least, most don’t know why. Why is it good quality tea? The same reason most things cost you more, it took a bloody lot more work to produce than you regular ol’ Red Rose tea. You guys aren’t drinking that… “stuff” anymore, right?
Why more work? It is grown at a very high elevation, on the side of mountains, where the sun is often blocked by rock and cloud. The lack of sun means the plant has to drawn on the soil for the nutrients to grow. This takes the plant much longer to mature, but all the minerals and nuances in the soil are also pulled into the plant giving it complete and complex flavour. I’ve mixed some berries and mulberry leaf in our pot of tea, to also give the tea some sweetness.
So today as you drink your tea, think of the mountains and enjoy.
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