Caffeine!

[cjsmith]

Mmm, Darjeeling tea right here at my desk. It's HOT and it's YUMMY and I'm even okay for caffeine today. My hands are slowly warming up from their office-air-conditioning-induced iciness. I'm even getting stuff done this morning. Life doesn't suck.

Comments

[thorswitch.livejournal.com]

Yeah! :)

I don't think I've ever had Djarling tea -- isn't that the stuff that comes from the special mountain with goats or something?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Um, I don't know. It's, um, something from India? I'm no connoisseur...

But it's hot and yummy and caffeinated. :-)

[(Anonymous)]

Mmm. Even cheap darjeeling manages to be a good tea. It has range though; if you want to get into the whole tea thing, upton's has a good darjeeling sampler that covers a whole range of qualities.
(www.uptontea.com, a "local" boston area tea importer, that started out as a guy who would bring stuff back on business trips to the far east when he worked for Wang :-)
next time you're back east, we should have a tea party... _Mark_

[wcg.livejournal.com]

According to Darjeeling is a small resort town with an elevation of 6500 feet above sea level. (http://www.stashtea.com/w-111191.htm) It goes on to say that "Darjeeling teas are considered the finest, rarest and most prestigious of black teas. The taste of Darjeeling varies with the seasons or harvest periods."

The Darjeeling tea I've typically had is a light golden colored tea that's somewhere between green tea and the more traditional black teas. I think that most of the Darjeeling tea sold in the US is the "second flush" or summertime harvest variety of Darjeeling.