Amba is a very special tea garden and this is a very special tea. Not only is it enhanced by rare flowers from the tea plants, it is made with such love and care that you can almost taste it when you drink it. Make yourself this tea and treat yourself to a cup of serenity, peace and love.
Amba tea garden is nestled into the hillside at 1000m above sea level, high above the Ravana-Ella waterfalls in the Uva mountains of Sri Lanka. Working with the local community, this small settlement produces a small but wonderful range of artisanal teas. Amba is one of only a handful of artisanal tea producers in Sri Lanka today and all of their teas are hand-made on the farm, using only carefully selected finest leaves and buds.
This very rare tea with flowers from the tea plant (Amba Tea Garden only produces about 30kg a month and we need to pre-order six months in advance) uses the Amba Orange Pekoe as its base. The pluckers who collect the leaves only gather about a 1kg of leaves and buds a day. After withering the leaves overnight the pluckers then roll the leaves they picked by hand. The fragrant dry leaf has hints of caramel and a light citrus aroma. Once brewed, the liquor is a copper gold in the cup and has complex notes of dried fruit, sweet meadow grass, citrus and a hint of classic Uva wintergreen. The flavours in this great tea are enhanced by the heavenly honey and almond floral notes supplied by yellow-gold tea flowers. Similar to a strongly oxidised oolong in character, this tea can be infused several times.
Black tea, flowers from the tea plant
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