Lipton Darjeeling Tea. "Pure Long Leaf Black Tea".
Price: Rs. 126 for 200 gms.
Brew:
1 tea-spoon(2 grams) per Cup(100-150 ml) of water.100 Degree C.3-5 minutes.Drink plain or add sugar.
Impression:
It’sa very aromatic and smooth tea. It took a while before I couldappreciate this tea, but a few regular cups a day and comparisonsessions with Assam and Nilgiri teas did the trick.
Somewherearound the 4th minute the tea suddenly becomes a little bitter. Bettercheck the tea after first 3 minutes and then every 30 secs, especiallyif you don’t add sugar to your tea.
This is neither a singleestate tea nor a single season(1st flush, 2nd flush or autumn flush.)tea. It’s a generic, branded’Darjeeling’ tea. It bears the Tea Board’sseal saying it is indeed authentic Darjeeling tea.
Price:
Rs. 126 for 200 grams.Regular and decent black teas, like Taj, Tata Tea etc cost about 60-75Rupees for 250 grams here. This looks a bit pricey. but. let’s doa simple math.
A cup of tea needs 2 grams of leaves. So with this pack we can make 100 cups of tea. Rs. 126 for 100 cups=> Rs. 1.26 per cup(about 100-150 ml). This way a litre of this tea costs roughly the same as a litre of bottled water. That’s cheap, isn’t it?
It’sin fact difficult to find Darjeeling teas at this price range. TataDarjeeling is also less expensive. Sorry, forgot to note down myimpressions about that tea. Estate specific teas are much much moreexpensive. 100 grams of Second Flush tea from Avongrove estates(yes, Darjeeling) costed me about Rs. 300(Still, just Rs. 6 per cup!).
Conclusion:
It’sa bit sad that our local tea has to come thru an International brand toour house. However, this is a real good tea, definitely great value formoney.