T6 Tea Types Gift Packed Speciality Estate Teas
further information

Green Kandyan Blooms:

Brewing:    Both Silver tips and Green Kandyan Blooms  require brewing as for green teas.  Heat up the freshly drawn water to approximately 90 ^o C (194 F) and then pour over the leaf which should be at a lower level than that used for black tea brewing. I do not recommend boiling the water and allowing it to cool. Once water reaches boiling point the oxygen is driven off very quickly in the bubbling action. This leaves a lifeless water.

ICED TEA:    Brew at double strength and pour into a glass or glasses filled with ice.

Silver Tips (White Tea) - In Crafted Toona Gift Box:

Boxes:     The conventional tip boxes are printed with silver printing.  The Organic Bio dynamic tip boxes are printed in gold printing.

Brewing:   Important to treat the buds as green tea and use the lower brewing temperature recommended. The amount of buds should be restricted for brewing to begin with and built up to your required flavour level. The buds are extremely fragile and should be treated with great care. The manufacture is minimal , no rolling and no normal fermentation process. The buds are merely left to dry in pans in a special room. The result is a downy or velvet like long bud.

The conventional production tips come from fields treated in the standard way with fertilisers. Chemical spraying in this island is strictly controlled and only allowed in specific situations where disease outbreaks are verified. We only used 6 specialist pluckers for this work. The buds are especially grown in a field that has been planted with the special clone used for this production. Only the long well grown buds are taken. Pluckers may normally pluck from 15 kilos to 60 kilos depending on age of bush and weather conditions. Here she will be plucking some 400 grms only in a day and therefore her bonus has to be augmented and allowed in full..

The Organic Biodynamic Tips are taken from an estate that is community owned and is certified Organic Bio dynamic. There is a fuller explanation in my Organic section on the website. Basically the system mirrors a middle ages form of agriculture using the phases of the moon.

©Robert Wilson Ceylon Teas 2002