Few varieties of Ceylon Teas types are being produced in Sri Lanka. They differ from one another mostly according to their manufacturing methods. In general, most popular type of Ceylon teas are Black Tea, Green Tea and White Tea. Among these teas there are different tea grades as well.
Ceylon Black Tea
Sri Lanka is famous for it’s flavory black teas. Black Tea production is categorized into three different elevation groups known as High country, Mid Country and Low Country, based on the geographic elevation of the location from which the green tea leaves are grown to manufacture the said tea. So these three groups offer tea from three different regions of Sri Lanka, which is the reason why such a variety of different teas originate from this island country. When you’re purchasing Ceylon Black Tea, there are variety of grades in the market. These are graded to different grades based on their appearance and size. From the three elevation groups, there are a lot grades. Generally most of the grades can be categorized into Whole leaf, Broken leaf, Fannings and Dust.
Ceylon White Tea
Ceylon white tea, also known as Silver tips are a very highly prized variety of tea. Made in small quantities with tea leaf buds, the tea is grown, harvested and rolled by hand with the leaves dried/withered in the sun. It has a delicate, very light liquoring with slight notes of pine & honey with a golden coppery infusion.
Ceylon Green Tea
Ceylon green teas generally have the fuller body and the more pungent, rather malty, nutty flavour characteristic of the teas. The tea grade names of most Ceylon green teas reflect tightly rolled Gunpowder tea and other Chinese varieties. Overall, the green teas from Sri Lanka have their own characteristics, they tend to be darker in both the dry and infused leaf, and their flavour is richer.
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