Brewing Darjeeling: One of the World's Great Tea Experts Explains How and Why

By Kevin Gascoyne

FAR FROM THE CONSISTENT TASTE found in measured brand-name tea bags, loose-leaf tea, carefully brewed, introduces a wide set of exciting variations on tea flavor. Without the help of the blender (who guarantees the same taste every time, as even subtle changes will be detected by regular customers), we depend on our own palates when we brew and must pay…