Lewis Perin > wrote:
(Scott Dorsey) writes:
>
>> Okay, I asked earlier about "Kalami" and "Barooti" teas, which are sold
>> to the middle eastern market.
>>
>> I had thought all of these teas were Assam, although recently I found a
>> Chinese tea in a Persian market in Washington which claimed to be "Kalami
>> of Yunnan." But most of them are.
>
>Have you tried that possibly Yunnan tea? And, if so, did it look and
>taste like a Yunnan red/black?

It was clearly black tea. I did not try it, but I could probably go back
and get the box.

>> It turns out, and I want to thank my local Persian acoustician for the
>> translation, that "Baroot" means "gunpowder" in Persia, and that the
>> BOP-sized tea is sold as "Barooti" meaning like gunpowder.
>>
>> He said that "Gulabi" is a Persian word meaning "rose water," but he
>> didn't see how that applied to tea.
>
>Rose-*scented* tea isn't terribly unusual. Could that be it?

No, the Kalami/Gulabi tea is a full-leaf Assam tea, no scenting. It has
a vaguely peachlike smell sometimes when it's fresh, and it's very clearly
a continuously-picked commodity tea.
--scott


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