31st Aug 2010 - 00:00
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Specialist tea company Emeyu has picked up a gold star at this year's Great taste Awards for its Emeyu Single Estate India tea.
The black tea is described by Emeyu as a 2nd flush Organic and Fair-trade Darjeeling tea from the Ambootia tea garden. Characteristic of Darjeeling "the Champagne of tea." Emeyu Single Estate India is a light black tea with a sweet floral scent. It features an amber infusion with a slightly astringent flavour and overtones of Muscat, pears and spice. Emeyu founder Emeyu Kristiane Blomgvist said: "We are extremely proud to have won a gold star at The Great taste Awards 2010. "Ambootia is a very special tea garden with strong ideals concerning Fair-trade and organic agriculture, which are fundamental to how we source our teas. "The fair-trade funds the garden receives have been used to improve education and offer scholarships as well as for disaster relief and hygiene." The company put the special quality of the Darjeeling tea down to "natural factors" including climate, elevation, type of tea bushes, soil, and the air that the bushes breathe.
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