Medium Estate

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Kandy District
3,200 ft

This is a single estate tea that replaces Melfort. Melfort is no longer producing black teas.
The estate is at the lower end of the Pussellawa valley on the road to Nuwara Eliya. This area is a wonderful endless tea carpet, following every dip and mound in the ground broken only by the shade trees, bungalows, factory and workers cottages. Along the roadside, caddies (small thatched stalls), sell wonderfully coloured sweets and the most sought after bowls of jaggery, a natural brown coloured sugar extracted from the flowers of the Palmyra palm and Kitul tree, the process is similar to the extraction of toddy from the coconut palms. The syrup is placed in half coconut shells and hardens into a semi-circular block, two put together as a ball of Jaggery. It is then made into fudge, used in preparing traditional sweets, used in place of cane sugar and even eaten with string hoppers.

This area is where the ground was cleared for the very first plantations which were in coffee in about 1826.

Liquor: A rounded smooth malty taste, more delicate than some Kandy teas. Will take milk or with less leaf produces a lighter liquor for drinking without milk, especially if the leaf is removed.

Brewing: 3 - 5 minutes. longer in Hard water areas.

Packs Available:
Identification Colour: MAROON

Loose: 100 g Foil. 125 g Cartons. 1 Kilo Foil

Melfort estate pack range