This exceptional limited release Darjeeling is an illuminating experience for all your senses. Picked under the strawberry full moon - the peak of Second Flush just before monsoon season - this exceptionally rare and special tea is a celestial culmination of cultivation and tea-making in its finest form. Filled with layered notes of light candied sugar, tea lovers will immediately recognize the silver tips that indicate a fine Darjeeling tea.
Tasting Notes: Vegetal with notes of sweet fruits
Caffeine Level: Moderate
Ingredients: Second Flush Darjeeling tea
Brewing Instructions: Steep 1 teaspoon of loose tea per 12oz. for 3 - 5 mins at 195 - 205°
This special tea is picked by the garden's most experienced tea pickers as the full moon rises. For generations, full moon teas have been considered the most prized teas because the belief that the the full moon's gravitational pull enhances the flavor and energy within each tea leaf plucked.
The Selimbong Tea Garden follows a very strict biodynamic fertilization calendar based around the lunar cycles. Biodynamic farming is organic farming to a new level, using methods of creating healthy fertilizers that have been perfected over decades to ensure the tea plants health, defense, and vigor.
The Grace Farms team travelled half way around the world to be part of this special full moon picking and to bring back the exceptional tea to share with you. This tea is truly a tea for tea lovers who are looking for an unparalleled sipping experience.
