GREAT TASTE AWARDS FOR ROBERT WILSON’S CEYLON TEAS
I have received the following Great Taste Awards after what has been a very trying season in the island with successive lockdowns:
Lover’s Leap F.B.O.P. Nuwara Eliya District high grown estate tea rising from 6,400 feet elevation, received a 3 Star Award.
Brunswick B.O.P. Sub District Maskeliya within Dimbula District high grown estate tea rising from 4,200 feet elevation, received a 1 Star Award
Brunswick B.O.P.F. As above but the grade we have made for Brunswick tea bags received, a 1 Star Award
Hellbodde B.O.P. Sub District Pussellawa within Kandy District medium grown estate tea rising from 3,900 feet elevation, received a 1 Star Award
2021 ANNUAL CEYLON LUNCH FOR THE SOUTH WEST
My wife and I have for the last three years, been entrusted to arrange and host the Annual Ceylon Lunch for the South-West, for retired Ceylon planters and agents on 16th. October at Taunton. Last year the event regretably had to be cancelled becuse of Covid but this year we are in action again and looking foreward to welcoming as many as feel able to attend, in the present Covid climate. The lunch also attracts several persons from across the South of England and as far North as Suffolk.
2021 UVA SEASON MANUFACTURE COMPLETED
After all the problems during this season with getting packing and design work done with endless lockdowns, we have completed the procurement of the Uva season teas. We believe that the better weather conditions this year in this season has given us teas that are of a better quality than the \Western season when the Covid complications impacted on getting the teas from the estates. We have also introduced two new teas to our range in a special run of New Vithanakanda F.B.O.P.F. Ex Sp1 and a high grown Green tea, that is a light liquoring tea with a light apricot colour and a fresh light grassy/ peaty taste.
2021 has been a really challenging period for everybody in the Ceylon tea industry as for other tea growing areas, certainly in trying to maintain the quality level that we aim at.