Nilgiri Kairbetta First Flush

An excellent, fresh and tangy spring tea from the blue Nilgiri mountains, processed in the style of Darjeeling First Flush. Very beautiful twisted leaf. A really good example for most careful work in cultivation and crafting, in an area which is actually known for its simple every-day teas.

Nilgiri, also known as the Blue Mountains, is the name of a mountain chain in the Southwest of India, at the border between the federal states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. In the district of The Nilgiris in the far West of Tamil Nadu, varietals cross-bred between Assam- and Chinese tea plants were planted and the tea has been exported since 1854. Most of the Nilgiri black teas are processed into simple qualities of fully oxidised black teas, some of them, however, also as briefly oxidised First Flushes, similar to the highland teas from Darjeeling.