PACKAGING:
Source of timber used for the boxes:
The timber that we use for the making of the boxes is from a species of tree that has been used as a shade tree within the tea fields for many generations. During that time it has been managed on a replacement cycle and this policy still continues to-day which allows us to use the timber for the boxes and also forms another source of income for the estates.
The tea used in these boxes is from specialist manufacture made specifically for us. These are not standard teas (wet and dry tea mixed) but special season teas made to our requirements in order to develop flavour and character. Please follow our suggestions for brewing and they will return great pleasure to the consumer.
The teas are packed within the boxes in a sealed foil pouch to protect and preserve the freshness and flavour level of the teas which are packed straight from the estate factory once we have made a run of manufacture.
Both Uva Seasonal Best Dark, Uva Seasonal Best Light and Mahagastota teas were all produced in the night once the rolling room had cooled down from the dry season heat of the day. This allows us to control the heavy volatile oils which are the basis of flavour and which are expressed from the leaf cells on to the surface of the rolled leaf. Excessive heat at this stage destroys the very flavour that we are trying to develop and preserve.
Our Earl Grey leaf not from one single estate but from two specially selected estates that give us this amazing balance with the Bergamot oil. The control of the application of the oil, the quality of that oil and the selection of the teas is the secret to this balance.
Community owned Organic Bio dynamic tea: The tea for this very large O.P.1 Spl green tea comes from a community owned estate. Full details of production is in my Organic section of the Web.
BREWING: Brew black tea with point of boil water.
Green tea as for green tea leaf 90 o C (194 F).
ICED TEA: All our teas can be used for iced tea
by brewing at double strength and pouring the brew into a glass or glasses
filled with ice.
©Robert Wilson Ceylon Teas 2002