CHEERICUP

One of the Mark T. Wendell Tea Company's oldest offerings, Cheericup is a unique blend of seven high and low grown estate teas from the island country of Sri Lanka... Off the coast of India is the country of Sri Lanka. About the size of Ireland, over half a million acres of this country are used to grow tea plants. This acreage makes Sri Lanka the world's third largest tea producer. With this much land devoted to tea, it is hard to believe that tea was not always part of Sri Lanka's history. Tea bushes were transplanted to the island over a hundred years ago by British planters. In 1972, Sri Lanka reverted to its original Sinhalese name, and decided to retain this name for its export tea product. Almost all Ceylon tea is black, and it is among the finest black teas cultivated in the world. There are very subtle differences between different Ceylon teas, and overall they have similar characteristics from estate to estate. Ceylon teas are broadly classified by the altitudes at which..