{"id":48831,"date":"2022-06-17T19:52:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T18:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curioustea.com\/?post_type=product&p=48831"},"modified":"2024-02-21T02:43:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T02:43:47","slug":"darjeeling-mandal-gaon-first-flush","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.curioustea.com\/tea\/black-tea\/darjeeling-mandal-gaon-first-flush\/","title":{"rendered":"Darjeeling Mandal Gaon First Flush"},"content":{"rendered":"
This new 2022 batch is a little different to the previous version from 2020, featuring a fuller taste that is perhaps less Darjeeling in flavour. For fans of classic First Flush Darjeeling, please be aware that this tea delivers quite a different experience as it is less floral and mineral. However it has an excellent flavour, closer to a fine Chinese Hongcha in taste.<\/p>\n
Darjeeling Mandal Gaon First Flush is a very fine, handmade Darjeeling from a small tea estate run by Mr Buddhasingh and his family to organic standards. Picked on 5 April 2022, this tea has a beautifully neat, tippy, semi-oxidised, large leaf. This tea from Mandal Gaon is also known as ‘Ramro Cha’. It produces a balanced yet complex liqour that is both typical of Darjeeling while being quite different!<\/p>\n
Mr Buddhasingh has a tea plantation that produces small amounts of organically grown tea from some 8,000 bushes. It is located<\/a> at an altitude of around 1,650m (5,500 ft) above sea level, in the Himalayan mountain slopes. As common with many local small farmers, the leaves from this tea garden would originally have been sold to larger tea factories. Mr Buddhasingh has recently built a micro tea factory in 2016 and has started producing fine artisanal Darjeeling teas. While an organic certification is financially out of reach for the time being, the teas grown at Mandal Gaon are grown and produced to organic standards.<\/p>\n