Carolina Estate sets all-time record price

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At this week’s tea auction held on 3 October, an invoice of PF1 from Carolina Estate, Watawala secured an All Time Colombo Tea Auction Record price of Rs. 700 per kg in the CTC Medium Grown Category. This tea was purchased by M/S. Uniworld Teas Ltd. who is a leading buyer of both liquoring Mediums as well as Low Grown teas and was sold through the catalogue of M/S Lanka Commodity Brokers Ltd.

Carolina Factory produces some of the best CTC Medium Grown teas and is now among the best established marks on offer at the Colombo Tea Auctions. Robin Winter the current DGM-Plantations who oversees the management of this estate ensures a high standard of green leaf for manufacture and regularly monitors quality at the different stages of production. This estate is managed by Watawala Plantations PLC whose main holding company is Sunshine Holdings PLC.