Name; Balasun Darjeeling 2nd
Flush 2011Type; Black, India, Darjeeling, Balasun, SFTGFOP
Price; £ 8.00 for 50 grams from Anteaques.
http://www.anteaques.co.uk
Brewing; 4 grams for .6 litres, 3:30 seconds at 100 degrees.
Review; If the reader hasn’t caught on yet,
Anteaques is usually my go to tea shop when I’m in dire need of a good
cuppa. Anteaques is where I have tasted
the finest Darjeelings. Andrew one of
the owners goes to extreme care with selection of his teas and Balasun
Darjeeling is a prime example. Anteaques
also has the highest level of selection of Darjeelings in the UK. As I stated earlier second flushes are
usually the preferred brew of a Darjeeling, and Balasun offers a prime example
of an excellent second flush.
Balasun Darjeeling is Anteaques’s answer to Goomtee when
they ran out of that precious dew. It’s
got much of the same muscatel tones, yet to be completely honest carries a
bitterness if it is over or under brewed.
I have had to order this tea many times to get it just right, but it is well
worth it.
A friend I was drinking with at the time described it as ‘very
subtle, yet lots of perfume’. I could
not agree more, this Darjeeling is too fine for the likes of milk and sugar,
and opens up to a beautiful honey liqueur reminiscent of mead and muscat
wines. Subtle start leads to a more
complex sweet finish.
All in all, this is a
wonderful tea. My only complaint would
be the price, however that is not justified.
This is half of the price of the mediocre First Flush I drank from Jing,
and at a quality that is un-rivaled this year.
Enjoy
-Tea Fan
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