# How to Brew Darjeeling Tea

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## Summary

How to brew Darjeeling, the Champagne of teas: slightly cooler water, four minutes, and no milk to keep its muscatel character.

## Description

Darjeeling has earned its nickname, the Champagne of teas, with a light body and a distinctive grape-like muscatel character you do not get from everyday black tea. It deserves a little respect at the kettle: water just off the boil at around 90C rather than a rolling boil, and four minutes in the cup. Leave out the milk, which flattens those delicate notes. This is tea to sip and notice, not to dunk a biscuit in.

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