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I have always wonder about this: is Darjeeling a black tea at all? It is much lighter in color and there are actually green leaf bits in it. It tastes a lot more grassy than the Huangshan Maofeng green tea I just received from the mail yesterday. However, most teashops put it under the black tea menu. People say it is a half-fermented tea so it is rather like an oolong, but it does not look like all those nice looking oolongs you have in your site. So what really is it?
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I think it’s considered a semi-ferment. These are halted before the full hongcha ferment, but did not go under the oolong process.
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@ zachno, you are right, Darjeeling is a lot “grassier” than some Chinese green teas. As a matter of fact, it is so to all the authentic Chinese green teas I have tried so far. I used to have it in my small array of tea collection, but I don’t know where to put it now: it is not real green tea, not real oolong and not real black tea. It has not the taste and aroma characters of them. I don’t have a reason to bear with its grassiness since I have the better tasting real green and real white teas, if I had to drink tea only for health at all.
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