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In the 1930s a British estate owner took his youngest daughter Margaret to Darjeeling, which she loved. Upon her return voyage home she fell ill and died and her father renamed his estate "Margaret's Hope" in her honour. The bushes at Margaret’s Hope in the Darjeeling region are almost entirely the Chinese Jat (genus) accounting for the green leafed tippy appearance of the manufactured leaf and the superb fragrance. Because this tea is grown at such high altitudes and in relatively cool weather the bushes do not grow quickly, and as such the production is limited. The quality is best during the ‘second-flush’ (late May - late June) and are incomparable to any other tea in the world. The fragrance and taste is a complex bouquet; some would describe the taste as nutty, or like black currants but most often it is compared to muscat grapes.