Ceylon Medium FBOP – Black Tea

Brew & Taste

Ceylon Medium FBOP will give you an exceptional experience. Its strong flavor is underlined by notes of fruit, the aroma is deep and the infusion is dark amber. The perfect tea for lovers of uniquely invigorating beverages. We recommend serving it flavored with milk and a teaspoon of brown sugar.

Origins

Ceylon (nowadays known as Sri Lanka) shares the vast majority of its black tea with tea drinkers around the world. Of its annual production of 300,000 tonnes, it exports a full 90%. Ceylon's tea is extremely sought-after, both by people who enjoy it regularly and those who focus on trying different tea varieties.

Ceylon has become a tea superpower out of pure necessity. When local farmers' coffee plantations were destroyed by a fungal disease in the 1870s, James Talor seized the opportunity. A young assistant manager of the coffee plantations, a native Englishman, planted the first acres of tea bushes and, through trial and error, learned to process their leaves. Within five years, he established a tea business that continues to bring prosperity to this East Asian island and employs a significant number of its population.

Black tea is not easy to make. It depends on a variety of conditions as well as the right timing so that the leaves are full of flavor, with beautiful color and unique aroma at the end of the process. After plucking, the tea is allowed to wilt and then rolled. It releases the juices which, when warm and moist, trigger the natural process of enzyme oxidation. But this is no uncontrollable chemical reaction. Fermentation is carefully monitored. It's precisely what determines how tasty and fragrant the tea will be. The next step is drying. Then the tea needs to be sorted, weighed and packaged. All Ceylon tea is produced under the close supervision of quality controllers.

The FBOP (Flowery Broken Orange Pekoe) abbreviation means that it is a crushed tea, containing tea buds.

Tea packaging preview

We pack our teas in a strong, zip-lock aluminum packet which allows you to easily re-seal its contents. This container protects the quality of the tea against humidity, light or foreign odors, all of which could noticeably affect the quality of the brew.