i normally drink whites , greens and such kind of tea.i tried darjeeling blacks for this muscatel flavour and am at a loss.i ordered teas supposed to be strong muscatel flavour and am missingit i guess.the second flush 2008 are for sale now and are 80 bux a pound, WOWi got some great white tea from yunnansourcing for 35 bux and it isgreat. my wife thins the whites taste like normal water but i get aspectrum of flavours even to the 4th infusion, my wife just rolls hereyes and pours it in the sink. i get butter vanilla flavours.based on my three darjeelings already received i find it hard to spendthat kind of cash searching for a muscatel flavour,i thought it would have been a tartness, like burgundy red grapes.any thoughts ?or is it like my wife and the white tea ? do some ppl just not get theflavours ?alanj

I also mostly drink whites and greens.Usually I don't drink darjeelings butsometimes they're not bad. I thinkdescriptions of taste like 'muscatel'are not very exact; I never get ataste from darjeelings very much likered grapes. If I never heard themdescribed as 'muscatel-tasting', Imight never chose to describe themas such myself, but now I do finda little muscatel-like aftertaste. Samewith whites that are described asvanilla/butter - yes, but at the sametime very different. In the end, aparticular tea tastes like itself andnothing else.

darjeeling muscatel?

Jul 10, 2008 Last reply: 18 years ago 24 Replies

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sjones12 18 years ago

alright,

who hijacked my darjeeling muscatel post to talk about rock tea ?

lol j/k

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niisonge 18 years ago

Sure, I sent you a small packet of 10 Kg in the mail already. Hahahaha

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SN 18 years ago

Heeey... quit teasing :)

you know i cant drink that much Qilan !! heheheh ... or can i ...

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niisonge 18 years ago

If you want to try some, I'm sure I can send you some real Qilan.

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chance 18 years ago

"Space Cowboy" wrote

I call some white

I can't help but suspect that all we are trying to do is to catch a moment so ephemeral that it hangs before us tantalizingly seducing us to capture it. But no sooner do you feel you have it, then it gets away. We seem to be doomed to the futility of trying to keep things so elusive that they don't let us keep them, even for a while. Isn't it that such is a tea-like tea?

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