"Melinda" > writes:

> I see that Upton's is advertising that it has some early season First Flush
> Darjeelings for 2006...isn't it way early for that? Could someone familiar
> with the Darjeeling harvest explain to me what the times are for First
> Flushes and how these could be FF? Thanks!

Until Karsten reports on what's happening this year, let me say that,
when I was in Darjeeling last winter, the lowest elevation Gopaldhara
tea was first harvested, in quantities too small for sale, at the end
of *February*. Higher elevation tea would of course come later.

/Lew
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