OOLONG TEA: Himalayan Moon Drops, Nepal - 2024

Himalayan Moon Drops
Organic oolong tea, Nepal

Flavour: floral, fruity, creamy & sweet
Harvested by hand on the 4th and 16th of June 2024, Himalayan Moon Drops is a sensory feast. It is created with leaves from Japanese and Taiwanese tea plant cultivars and carefully crafted into a lightly oxidised tea, taking inspiration from Taiwan’s ‘paochong’ style of tea. The leaves infuse into a gorgeous tea with floral and fruity notes and hints of muscatel and sweetened cream.

Jun Chiyabari, meaning ‘Moonlit tea garden’, is a family-run, high mountain tea estate led by brothers Bachan and Lochan Gyawali. The tea plants are set in small plots scattered between forests, bamboo groves, boulders and streams, at an altitude of 1650m to 2100m in Dhankuta, east Nepal. The terroir, the brothers’ commitment to organic production and careful processing creates rare, high-quality, light and aromatic full-leaf teas. Organic certification by IMO.

Preparation: Steep for 3 minutes at 75 - 95°. Three infusions. 

Infusions: specialty tea leaves can all be steeped at least twice, and often more, so each 3 gram serve (150 mls - a standard teacup size), will give you two cups ('infusions') if you steep the leaves twice. On the back of your pouch under 'Steep', you can find the number of infusions for your tea.

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