On Mar 13, 2:58*pm, Lewis Perin > wrote:
>
> Are you saying that Darjeeling-grown tea is better than any tea grown
> in Yunnan?

Yes, to a Darjeeling tea devotee this is so. Vice versa for a Yunnan
devotee. Likewise a Bangladeshi tea is better if that's what you
prefer.
>
> Are you saying that all Darjeeling-grown tea is descended from the
> China seeds?

Yes, for all high elevation Darjeeling (and that's most of it) this is
so, or at least was until the 1970s when some import of external tea
germ plasm began for breeding purposes and clonal selection. However
the vast majority of Darjeeling planting is derived from the original
source - China seed - and some of those bushes are 100 years plus.

Nigel at Teacraft