Quite possibly the nicest Ceylon teas

The Loolecondera was one of my favorites too. Rebecca is a gem.

Its all just lovely. Tried about six of the teas and only one didn’t float my boat

which one was it?

oh no. What was it like? I’ve tried some tea from Amba before (think I bought mine from Harney and Sons in the usa) and I really liked it.

I have an (untried) Amba on tap from another vendor. So I would also be interested in the reasons for disliking it.

Best wishes,
sherubtse

huh. Which one was it? Green or Black? I had a look on their website and saw that Teahills now has a Amba green tea, which I haven’t tried.

Black. Not a bad tea by any means, it just didnt do it for me

huh, I may do a taste test myself and order some of the Amba from Teahills, and some from Harney/where ever and see. It could be the tea reacted to my water better than yours!

I quite liked the Amba ceylon, it reminded me of a Taiwanese black tea. I bought mine from Harney and Sons, but I’ve seen it popping up everywhere (think Tealet is selling it now…but at quite a dear price).

Ceylon’s have a pretty distinct taste, but one of the beauties to the tea, is that each of the regions tastes differently. Maybe try some greens and whites from Ceylon and see what you think of those? Ceylon blacks can often be a little too full on for me sometimes.

(Ceylon back in the 90’s decided to move towards the CTC production style. Which was a really stupid idea because then it meant that they were competing against countries like Kenya. Ceylon tea is all controlled by the government in auctions, so its kinda hard to find ‘great tea’. Rebecca at Monsoon Mountains is an expert in that. She does ship to the USA, just be prepared for a little higher cost (but she is honest, and I can honestly not think of someone who knows Sri Lanka better)

CTC teas generally taste really bitter to me unless I play around with them a LOT and I usually don’t have the patience for that. I’ve actually gotten some nice looseleaf out of Kenya though. I tend toward the Chinese blacks for my normal drinking. I have yet to meet a Darjeeling I can stand.

Have you tried Nilgiri before? I found them to be quite smooth, but then again I love Darjeelings so I might have different tastes.

I know that mainland China is going crazy for Sun Moon Lake, a black tea from Taiwan (also Ruby 18). Maybe try that if you like Chinese blacks.

From what I understand, the very taste that makes a Darjeeling taste like a Darjeeling is what I don’t like. I’ll check out the SML tea though, thanks.

if you mean like, a ceylon for someone who normally doesn’t care for it, i love golden moon’s sinharaja.

haha you are making me realize I need to place another order with her now.