Ceylon
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What does it take to be a championship-winning tea?
That was the main question I had in mind this morning as I enjoyed Teas Etc’s Ceylon OP1, which took first prize in the Ceylon category in last year’s World Tea Expo. It was one of three Teas Etc teas to win a prize (you can get all three together in a special Championship pack).
Thomas Lipton, James Taylor and the Origins of the Ceylon Tea Industry
It began with a parasite. Hemileia vastarix, or Coffee Rust, decimated 19th century Ceylon?s coffee crops in 1869, wreaking havoc on the island’s coffee plantations and sparking the birth of the tea industry, which remains vital to the Sri Lankan economy today.