Ceylon New Vithanakande

Black tea from tropical Sri Lanka
Beautifully processed, small, regular, lightly rolled, long, wire-like, dry leaves consist mostly of golden-silver tips. Dense in the aroma, but pleasantly cool, sweetly honey-like with tones of dried apricots and white chocolate. Dense infusion of brown-red color, sweet honey (forest honey), round, balanced and creamy taste with tones of vanilla, cocoa and black currant. We classify this tea from the Ruhuna region as the so-called low grown tea.

Preparation: 4 teaspoons of tea for 1l of boiled water, steep for 3 minutes.

Tea cultivated in the northern part of the Ruhuna area near the legendary town of Ratnapura, famous mainly for gem mining. Here at the edges of the Sinharaja rainforest, there are very favourable conditions for tea plant cultivation, giving the local teas a unique character. Tea grow at elevation 600 m and are known as "low grown" teas.