Ceylon Uva
· Uva Ceylon
Black
A wind makes this tea. During the dry season a monsoon gust called the Cachan blows across Sri Lanka's most remote highlands, and the leaf it passes over develops a cool breathy note close to wintergreen. Without the wind there is no Uva.
This was the tea Thomas Lipton used to persuade America to drink tea at all. It still reaches the town of Badulla only by steep mountain road, and the isolation has kept it much as it was.
The wind is in the cup. It pours copper-bright and drinks smooth and mellow, with that strange airy edge running underneath the whole time.
- wintergreen
- brisk
- smooth
- Origin
- Uva Province, Sri Lanka
- Water
- 95°C / 203°F
- Ratio
- 4 g / 100 ml
- Caffeine
- Medium
- Rinse
- Not needed
Named among the world's great fragrant/black teas alongside Darjeeling and Keemun
How much leaf
Gong fu brewing is leaf-heavy and short. Set your gaiwan or pot size and this is what to weigh out.
Vessel volume
100 ml
Recommended dose
Use ~4.0g of tea
The session
4 infusions, about 1m 50s of total contact time.
- Steep 115sA cool breath over dark tea.
- Steep 220sWintergreen lifts, bright and airy.
- Steep 330sMalt fills in beneath the note.
- Steep 445sSmooth and mellow to the close.
Also sold as
Uva, Ceylon Uva Highland, Uva Black
Steaper times this session for you
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Get notified at launchThese numbers are a median of independent gong fu sources, not a law. Leaf age, vessel and water all move them. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.