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Lewis 11/3/03

> I like to shop in Asian groceries where I live in New York, though I
> don't rely on them for most of the tea I drink. Occasionally
> something catches my eye, though, and I take a chance on it.
> Yesterday at an Indian grocery I bought Three Rivers Kashmiri Tea at
> $2.99 for 150g. I confess I hadn't known Kashmir produced tea. It
> was packaged in the kind of clear plastic jar that in the US seems to
> be used mainly for instant coffee but sported a pale pink top that
> would look out of place on a US supermarket shelf. The clear plastic
> showed that the tea was whole-leaf; that, I suppose, nerved me for the
> purchase.
>
> It's a medium body tea with a manageable amount of astringency and
> bitterness. What's really unusual about it is an intense aroma of
> apple, probably with a tinge of fermentation as in hard cider. This
> aroma carries over into the cup as by far the most prominent element
> of the taste. This tea probably isn't for everyone but I'm delighted
> I bought it.
>
> /Lew

Lew,

It occurs to me that this *might* not be from Kashmir at all. Didn't we once
see discussion in which someone mentioned that some teas from odd places
package at the location but import the tea from more conventional locales? I
wonder.

Michael