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Labookelle Tea Centre
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Damro Labookellie Tea Centre, formerly known as Mackwoods Labookellie Tea Centre, is situated along the Peradeniya-Badulla-Chenkaladi Highway in Nuwara Eliya. This is the oldest tea Centre in Sri Lanka. Its tea bushes are replanted every 100 years on over 5000 hectares of luch tea plantations. In this tea factory, they make white and black tea, while the green tea is processes in another tea factory and then sent to here. All the different kinds of teas have different processes of making and can learn all about these processes while having a tea factory tour. The factory tour will take you through the process of tea plucking, withering (takes out the moisture), rolling, fermentation, firing and sorting/grading.
When plucking, only the top leaves (two or three leaves and a bud) are used for making the black tea, since the top leaves are healthier and fresher.
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