Not all teas are created equal. This one was created by nature, and finished by patience. Astraea Golden Delight is sourced from high-altitude gardens where the air is thin and the tea grows slow. During the manufacturing process, the tender cloned buds of the finest leaves turn golden in colour naturally — a rare transformation that signals exceptional quality. These golden buds are then individually tasted, carefully segregated by quality, and blended with precision to create a cup that is unlike anything else in the Astraea range. The result is a tea of remarkable character — sweet, aromatic, earthy, and with a tenderness of flavour that is genuinely hard to put into words. Most of this grade of tea is exported to European countries. You are drinking something that rarely stays in India. The aroma of the dry leaf alone breaks the silence. It takes you somewhere — to lush green hillsides where tea trees kiss the clouds, to mornings that are unhurried and air that is clean. The liquor brews a deep golden colour that is as beautiful in the cup as the leaves are on the shelf. This is a tea for people who know what they're looking for. And for those discovering it for the first time — welcome. Comes in Astraea's signature black square tin with a warm antique-gold accent — rare on the outside, extraordinary on the inside.