Black · Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka
Nuwara Eliya Ceylon
Moderate caffeine
Sri Lanka's highest-grown black tea: pale gold, fragrant and crisp, the 'champagne of Ceylon'.
Recipe
- Temperature
- 90 °C · 194 °F
- Leaf
- 4 g
- Water
- 250 ml
- First steep
- 3:00
- Each next steep
- +0:30
- Steeps
- 2
Suggested starting point.
Time this brew with Pekoe
Aroma notes
cypress · citrus blossom · fresh hay
Tasting notes
crisp · delicate · clean
Harvest
January–March
Making
Plucking 
Withering 
Rolling 
Oxidation 
Firing 
Sorting
Origin
Nuwara Eliya · Sri Lanka
Altitude slows the bush, and the cold nights fix its aromas. The cup comes out pale and close to floral.
Lore
When coffee rust ruined Ceylon's plantations, James Taylor planted tea at Loolecondera in 1867. Within a generation the island fed the world's teapots. At nearly two thousand meters, Nuwara Eliya's cool nights keep its liquor pale and its aroma high.
