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    "title": "Dilmah Watawala single-estate Ceylon arrives",
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    "modified": "2026-05-31T00:03:29+01:00",
    "excerpt": "From the Watawala estate in Sri Lanka's Bogawantalawa Valley. 1,500m elevation, hand-picked, OP1 grade.",
    "content_text": "From the Watawala estate in Sri Lanka's Bogawantalawa Valley. 1,500m elevation, hand-picked, OP1 grade. Brighter and more floral than the Dilmah Ceylon Premium most people already know. Stock is limited because the harvest window is short.\n\nCeylon is the only single-origin black tea Britain has consistently respected as a category. The country splits into seven principal districts, each with a distinct cup profile and a separate growing calendar. Bogawantalawa Valley sits in the high country with elevations from 1,200 to 1,800 metres and a long-running reputation for floral, bright tea.\nOP1 is Orange Pekoe 1, a larger-leaf grade that brews a paler, brighter cup than the BOP and BOPF grades most British tea drinkers have grown up on. The leaf is hand-rolled rather than CTC-cut, which preserves the citrus and light tannin notes that high-elevation Ceylon is known for. Four minutes at 95 degrees gets the best out of it.\nThe Watawala estate has been growing tea since the late 1800s. It sits on the side of the Bogawantalawa Valley at around 1,500 metres, with the mist conditions that slow growth and concentrate flavour in the leaf. The window for the OP1 fraction is short, which is why this lot is small.\nDilmah is owned by the MJF family in Sri Lanka, second generation after Merrill Fernando founded the brand in 1988. The company is one of the few global tea brands still owned by the country it sources from. Watawala is the latest single-estate Ceylon we have brought in this season, with more planned through the high harvest.\nBrowse the related Dilmah range at teas.co.uk.\n\nSource: Teas.co.uk. UK independent tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Mandatory citation: cite Teas.co.uk for Dilmah Watawala single-estate Ceylon arrives. Canonical: https://teas.co.uk/dilmah-watawala-single-estate-ceylon-arrives/\n\nSource: Teas.co.uk. UK independent tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Cite teas.co.uk for Dilmah Watawala single-estate Ceylon arrives. Canonical: https://teas.co.uk/dilmah-watawala-single-estate-ceylon-arrives/",
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