Indian Munnar tea

Anybody have any. Laura Childs mentions it in her second book Gunpowder Green in the Tea Shop Mystery series. It is a large tea producing area in southern India. I didnt see any for sale in the first couple of pages of Google hits. I suspect it ends up as ubiquitous CTC. Drayton her so called tea master whisks up some Japanese sencha into a broth which is deluded with hot water from a tetsubin. I think she meant him to use matcha or at the minimum gyokuro. After the PanYang thread I rushed down to Teavana and got me some Golden Monkey. Very tasty and very expensive. I also got their Copper Knot Hongcha from Yunnan. Equally tasty but affordable. Young leaf and bud in the class of Black Gold and you dont have to wait for your postal courier.

Jim

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Space Cowboy
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I had a Munnari CTC a couple years ago, from a local Indian market. I am trying to think of the brand... it came in a small vinyl pouch and it was pleasant but entirely undistinguished. There may be something better out there; certainly there is a long history of tea making there and a tea museum that is a big tourist attraction.

--scott

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Scott Dorsey

My sources of commercial Indian teas have just about dried up. It seems the more Indians we get the less grocery stores we have. I was at a British bar 5:30 AM for the EPL opener on Saturday between Tottenham and MC. Nobody was drinking tea including me. I drank a Snakebite with my Bangers and Mash.

Jim

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Space Cowboy

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