Sri Lankan Tea menu at Jetwing hotels

TEA: Jetwing Hotels will feature a 'Tea Menu' known as Sri Lanka Tea by Jetwing commencing September 2006. It will be a celebration and appreciation of Sri Lanka's famous tea.

Until 1869 the main crop produced in Sri Lanka, then Ceylon, was coffee. A coffee-rust fungus, Hemileia vastatrix, killed the majority of the coffee plants in this year and estate owners had to diversify into other crops in order to avoid total ruin.

However, sadly in Sri Lanka, neither the Sri Lankans nor the overseas visitors have the privilege of enjoying or sampling the true and varied flavours of our very own Sri Lankan Tea. They most often get a wider variety and selection of imported wines than tea in our hotels.

Jetwing has therefore decided to be the first to introduce this quality selection of single estate Tea's and are now working with a Tea expert, Manthi Delwita of Robert Wilsons Ceylon Teas.

This service will commence initially at Galle's Lighthouse Hotel and Spa, The Beach in Negombo, Vil Uyana located near the Sigiriya Rock Fortress, Hunas Falls Hotel in the hills of Kandy and St. Andrew's in Hotel Nuwara Eliya.

Jetwing will also introduce a tea tasting ceremony that will enable the guest to taste tea produced in each of the six regions. This will be organised on a weekly basis at each featured hotel, to show and allow guests to taste in a professional 'Tea Tasting' manner the different flavors as, the teas produced in each region have their own individual characteristics of flavour, aroma and colour.

In addition a traditional Afternoon Tea menu would be developed to complement the high quality tea they intend to serve so that Sri Lanka Tea by Jetwing will be a truly refreshing experience.