> 1st Flush Darjeeling teas 2008:
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>     It has been a long time since I've been able to place any
> information regarding the 1st flush 2008 teas, well to be very honest
> on one side we expect a very good crop as we had a couple of full
> fledged winter rains in mid February and a mild snowfall too, which
> shows a clear sign of a very healthy crop, specially the clonals would
> do wonders for the tea planters but seeing the current political
> scenario in Darjeeling where most of the tea garden labours are
> involved in the mess, some of the very renowned tea gardens will
> suffer here as due to this involvement as these particular gardens
> missed the important curing required before this golden harvest but I
> don't want to mention the names of these gardens as in the mid-spring
> they can still give a good harvest but the early spring crop will not
> be very good for them.
>      Well talking about our selections I will not try to be very
> experimental this year as I had succeeded last year with my selection
> of teas and at least 90%% of my customers had appreciated my teas,
> specially I can't stop myself from writing about the Singbulli clonal ...

> 1st Flush Darjeeling teas 2008:
>
> It has been a long time since I've been able to place any
> information regarding the 1st flush 2008 teas, well to be very honest
> on one side we expect a very...

> rajivmi...@gmail.com writes:

>>1stFlushDarjeelingteas2008:

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>>     It has been a long time since I've been able to place any
>> information regarding the1stflush2008teas, well to be very honest
>> on one side we expect a very good crop as we had a couple of full
>> fledged winter rains in mid February and a mild snowfall too, which
>> shows a clear sign of a very healthy crop, specially the clonals would
>> do wonders for theteaplanters but seeing the current political
>> scenario inDarjeelingwhere most of theteagarden labours are
>> involved in the mess, some of the very renownedteagardens will
>> suffer here as due to this involvement as these particular gardens
>> missed the important curing required before this golden harvest but I
>> don't want to mention the names of these gardens as in the mid-spring
>> they can still give a good harvest but the early spring crop will not
>> be very good for them.

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> Curing?  What does this mean?
> ...

> On Feb 28, 7:37 pm, Lewis Perin panix.com> wrote:
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>> rajivmi...@gmail.com writes:

>>>1stFlushDarjeelingteas2008:

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