{"id":658,"date":"2009-01-21T00:59:10","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T05:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/tea\/?p=32"},"modified":"2009-01-21T00:59:10","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T05:59:10","slug":"puttabong-ftgfop1-first-flush-no-105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/puttabong-ftgfop1-first-flush-no-105\/","title":{"rendered":"Puttabong FTGFOP1 First Flush (No. 105)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allergies and a sore back conspired with some ibuprofen to give me a late start to my day. So naturally I turned to some tea to perk me up a bit and get me moving. I chose a single estate Darjeeling that I&#8217;d aquired from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.specialteas.com\">SpecialTeas<\/a>, but hadn&#8217;t tried yet:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/st105.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34\" title=\"st105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/st105-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Special Teas no longer lists this tea as #105. (Listing 105 as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.specialteas.com\/Darjeeling-Mailing\/105-Darjeeling-Puttabong-FTGFOP1-First-Flush.html\">Darjeeling Yashodhara FTGFOP1 1st Flush<\/a>&#8221; instead. I&#8217;m not sure if this is from the same estate or not.) I seem to recall that this was a particularly expensive tea. (Which would explain why I only have a 1\/2 oz of it.)<\/p>\n<p>I used 2 level teaspoons for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.republicoftea.com\/templates\/detail.asp?navID=100\">teapot<\/a>, heated the water to a roaring boil and steeped for the recommended 3 minutes. The brewed tea came out a lovely golden color:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/st105c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36\" title=\"st105c\" src=\"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/st105c-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The taste was definitely a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Darjeeling_tea\">Darjeeling<\/a>, musky and floral with an incredibly smooth and medium-bodied feel. Though I brewed for a full three minutes, there was absolutely no hint of bitter tannins at all. It&#8217;s too bad this tea is no longer listed, because it was absolutely lovely and I&#8217;m going to run out of it quickly. After a quick search I found that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holymtn.com\/catalog\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;products_id=249\">Holy Mountain Trading Company<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragonwater.com\/product_detail.tf\/824_puttabong_darjeeling_ftgfop1_tea.html\">Dragonwater Tea Company<\/a> both list this tea. I was right, it&#8217;s pretty expensive, but I think I can agree with the one site that listed this as the &#8220;champagne of teas&#8221;. I haven&#8217;t tried a second steeping yet, but given the price, I will!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/teatray1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38\" title=\"teatray1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/teatray1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All in all, a lovely way to start the day.<\/p>\n<p>Postscript: I did try a second and a third steeping. The second was as lovely as the first. Still fairly full-bodied and smooth, and the taste still came through. The third steeping was a noticably paler color and it had lost much of its body and flavor, though there were still no bitter tannins to be had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allergies and a sore back conspired with some ibuprofen to give me a late start to my day. So naturally I turned to some tea to perk me up a bit and get me moving. I chose a single estate Darjeeling that I&#8217;d aquired from SpecialTeas, but hadn&#8217;t tried yet: Special Teas no longer lists &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/puttabong-ftgfop1-first-flush-no-105\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Puttabong FTGFOP1 First Flush (No. 105)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,140,144],"tags":[178,239,250,251,253,25],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darjeeling","category-my-stash","category-tasting","tag-darjeeling","tag-puttabong","tag-special-teas","tag-stash","tag-tasting","tag-tea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}