BLACK TEA: Heritage Black, Sri Lanka

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Heritage Black
Black tea, Sri Lanka

Flavour: malt, spice and wood ~ brisk and bold
The highest-grade (Orange Pekoe A) black tea from Hidden Hills tea garden in Sri Lanka. Harvested in July 2024, these leaves infuse into a brisk and bold black tea with notes of malt, pepper, aniseed and pine. Steeping at 90C creates a slightly sweeter and more mellow infusion; at 100C, a sharper, more punchy tea.

Hidden Hills is a small tea garden in the village of Thumodera, Seetawaka, Sri Lanka, run by Chula De Alwis. Its location and unique environment create the perfect conditions for growing tea naturally. The plants are fed by spring water and pest control is taken care of by local bird life. Forest borders the garden, which has views up to the lush Seetawaka mountain range and the Seetawaka wet zone botanical gardens are nearby.

Learn more about Hidden Hills here.

Preparation: Steep for 3 minutes at 90 - 100°. Three infusions. 

Infusions: specialty tea leaves can all be steeped at least twice, and often more, so each 3 gram serve (150 mls - a standard teacup size), will give you two cups ('infusions') if you steep the leaves twice. On the back of your pouch under 'Steep', you can find the number of infusions for your tea.

If you infuse your leaves at least twice, your pouch will give you the following cups of tea (or more if you infuse your leaves more times):

50 grams - 33 cups
100 grams - 66 cups
200 grams - 133 cups

Watch Anna talk about this tea here:

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