Developing a deeper appreciation for the world's second most popular beverage
Categories: Tea history
Tags: Ceylon, Ceylon Tea, James Taylor, Lipton, Loolecondera Tea Estate, Sri Lanka, Thomas Lipton
Post date: December 16, 2008
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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.
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