NEPAL PURE MOON BLACK TEA

Jun Chiyabari is a family run tea garden established in April 2000. The garden is at an altitude of between 1650m and 2200m. The mixing of the warm air from the south and cold air from the north often shrouds the tea garden in cool mist enabling good tea growing conditions. The effect of the altitude, bright and warm sunny days punctuated by cool mountain mists and chilly nights is that the tea is aromatic and depending on the variety or cultivar and processing, flowery, fruity, grassy or nutty. This batch also has the special 'muscatel' character found in some Darjeeling and Oriental Beauty teas. The garden was planted out in small plots with small patches of high quality cultivars. So each tea is a mix of various cultivars. This artisanal tea was hand plucked by girls of Jun Chiyabari Tea Garden in the Dhankuta district of East Nepal and crafted by a tea master. The technique used in crafting this tea is unique and was taught by master tea makers from Japan and Taiwan. It has always been an organic tea garden since the first planting in 2001.