The Tea Spot Blue Mountain Nilgiri Organic Black Tea Review

MmMmm chocolate shavings....

The first thing that came to my mind when I looked that the Tea Spot Blue Mountain Nilgiri was chocolate. Why? Because the tea leaves look exact like chocolate chip flakes!  Mmm!  The tea leaves looked like chocolate shavings ranging from dark chocolate to milk chocolate when I started steeping them in my cup.

A little background before we begin.  This tea is single estate from the Nilgiri Mountains in India.  I love single estate teas.  I can understand why people would want to blend teas from different regions to get the best cup, but there is something special about drinking a tea from a specific region.  You get to taste the characteristics that comes from that the specific region and appreciate the quality of the tea from that area.  When you brew loose green tea for example.  You don’t combine Chinese gunpowder tea with a Japanese bancha.  You could, but you drink the teas separately to appreciate the flavours that come with each individual tea.

Anyways back to this single estate tea.  I used 1 teaspoon and steeped for 3-5 minutes in about 250ml of boiling water.  The liquor appears at first to haev turned a beautiful earthy brown, but upon closer inspection its a deep orange hue.  The tea had nice gentle fragrant aroma to it, it definitely reminded me of a Darjeeling.  Wow, I really liked this tea.  It was medium in body and had a very nice finish that lasts in your mouth.  It is quite gentle to start on the palate, but finishes off rich and a bit smoky.  There is caffeine in this cup, but lighter in caffeine then some heavier black teas I’ve had.  Organic and fair trade as well.  It’s a win win win situation.  I just wish I was actually in India sipping this, not at home in front of my computer.  Sigh.

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