Nilgiri Korakundah Estate - Organic FOP/FBOP - Organic
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Commercial Description
This black tea is a mix of FOP (flowery orange pekoe) and FBOP (flowery broken orange pekoe) leaves with a forest, oaky aroma in the dry leaf. It brews to a golden amber cup with a smooth, sweet, slightly floral taste. A perfect all day drinking tea!
Ratings & Reviews
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95 Aroma: 9/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 5/5Heather Z. (83 reviews) on May. 30th, 2024
I absolutely love this tea! It's full bodied and aromatic. The aroma is bready (like most black teas smell to me) but also a bit fruity like raisins, and also Indian, like cardamon or something. The tea is perfect because I'm sensitive to astringency and it isn't too astringent, but it has just enough astringency to be thick and full bodied. The taste is just very pleasant and warming and I can taste that fruitiness as well. Looking at the website listed price, this is one of the cheapest teas I've seen yet! Unless the website is wrong, it looks like this tea is only $24.40/lb, whereas a lot of the other nice teas I've been trying are about 90-100/lb, so despite being much cheaper this tea tastes so wonderful and it an amazing value. Disclaimer: This is an older tea that was in my pantry so it's possible it has mellowed with age and it would've been stronger, possibly too strong, when it was fresh.
71 Aroma: 10/10 Flavor: 2/5 Value: 4/5Alex Zorach (1448 reviews) on Oct. 16th, 2018
A beautifully aromatic tea that a strong bitterness and thin body. I found it tricky to brew to satisfaction. I have now sampled three teas from Korakundah estate, and I find they are all a bit like this, although I think this was by far my favorite of the three. Thank you to Simpson & Vail for the free sample!
The dry leaf has an odd, heterogeneous appearance, somewhat broken, twiggy, and with a few tightly rolled pieces. It smells wonderful! The smell is soft and sweet, with malty notes, a hint of fruit and spice. The smell of the dry leaf is among my favorite teas I've smelled in a long time.
It smelled good before brewing, but the fragrance of the brewed cup is absolutely divine. It smells like a high-end baked good from a fancy pastry shop: the smell is sweet and somewhat grainy or bready, with floral and fruity notes and a hint of wintergreen. The flavor is a little bit more muddled. Much more bitter than I expect from the aroma. Body is light, with a very low astringency that I find leaves me wanting more.
I resteeped and the cup was far too bitter.
I also wasn't crazy about how I felt after drinking this. I found myself wanting to brew it stronger, both because I can't get enough of the wonderful aroma, but also because the thin body is unsatisfying and I kept wanting it to be more rich and full. Yet then it would get too bitter and also be too caffeinated, leaving me feeling jittery.
The balance of this tea is off. That said, it's still worth trying because of the wonderful fragrance; if you are more tolerant of light-bodied teas than me (I have been growing less and less fond of them over time) you may enjoy this one more than I did. If you like lighter-bodied Darjeelings and don't mind a good bit of bitterness, I'd recommend this.
In spite of me not being a huge fan of this tea, I think the price is very good.
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