Darjeeling, Arya Diamond Second Flush Organic Black Tea

When I first received this tea I knew I would be in for a treat because it happens every year.  Arya has never let me down!  When my shipment finally arrived after months of anticipationI felt like a kid in a candy shop!  I opened the bag and was overwhelmed with the aroma of fresh ripe oranges with a slight hint of dark chocolate. The pronounced citrus aroma was accented with a faint floral and nutty undertone. This tea is highly aromatic and rich in complexity. To say the aroma of this exquisite tea is intoxicating is an understatement! The Arya Estate names all of their teas after precious jewels.  It goes without saying that their Diamond is the cream of the crop, the best of the best. Diamond is carefully hand-plucked solely from the prized AV2 cultivar from the highest section of the estate where the slow growth concentrates the juices and nutrients in the leaf resulting in the most complex flavors and aromas. The dry leaf is a bit longer than the normal classic graded Darjeeling