About this item

• 1. Limited Edition FTGFOP1 Jethikupi White is Darjeeling fresh First Flush White Tea, which is the season’s first produced tea just after the winter season. It’s is produced at Rohini Tea Estate of Darjeeling. Rohini is mostly the first garden to produce the first flush teas in Darjeeling.
• 2. The workers carefully pluck the tea leaves while making sure that only the best shoots with eminent buds are plucked. This season the growth of Darjeeling tea is very slow and the workers could only bring in a very small quantity of leaves that are very special.
• 3. The plucking of tea leaves is of such fine quality that the tea is mostly hand sorted with very fewer machinery works involved.The tea bushes are grown and harvested at an elevation between 1500-3000 feet. The bushes are fresh as they have just come out of an extended period of remaining inactive cause of the prolonged winters of almost about 3 months from the month of November to January.
• 4. The low temperature experienced during winters has given a very well defined character to the tea.This tea is made from the best quality P-157 clones which is one of the best clones planted in Darjeeling. The dry leaves are bright green in appearance and consist of two whole leaves and a bud.
• 5. The teas are very mildly oxidized and are delicately processed to induce minimal damage. All oxidation done is overnight and natural with nothing being induced vigorously.This Darjeeling fresh First Flush Tea is very light on the palette, having a very mouthful flavor that leaves a clean note with smooth finish having an abundant flavor. The flavor is full and leaves a very pleasant and distinct aftertaste with zero astringency. The infusion has to be kept absolutely green.