Australian Tea Masters - Ceylon

Leaf grading against a standard, preparation for buying.

A tasting session of 80 cups of high & medium grown teas.

Participants checking the infusion. Waste to a consumer yet of significant importance to a taster, It indicates the quality of the tea and could even help identify where the tea comes from.

A factory & field visit to give an insight into field practices and the manufacturing process with Mr. Ananda Fernando and Dr. Ziyad Mohamed.

Not just taste, leaf appearance, colour of the liquor & infusion, all play a major role in deciding the price of tea

Participants learning to connect leaf appearance to taste.

Grading is an art of describing what a tea looks like, in order to determine if the tea is suitable for purchase during the auction.

Learning the art of tea tasting to a methodically structured programme, makes learning much faster than the traditional method of follow and learn.

Veteran tea taster Asoka Goonethilake explaining simplified methods to excel in the art of tea tasting.