There is a small amount of CTC production in Sri Lanka/Ceylon. I
believe I've read that about 6 per cent is CTC. But a huge
amount of the "orthodox" black tea is made into small particles,
i.e. BOP, BOPF and Dust, by the Rotorvane process.

Jon

"Space Cowboy" skrev i melding
om...
I would have guessed that over the decades I would have seen a
CTC
Ceylon first in a commercial brand. You see CTC all the time
in
Indian teas but that process I haven't seen in other tea
producing
countries which still use sieving. Hopefully our resident tea
industry expert can shed some light on this subject. Ceylon
has the
same problem as India with Darjeeling. There is a Ceylon
trademark
making it authentic. Otherwise just shipped and packaged in
Ceylon.
So I went to my favorite Arabic market and they no longer
carry my
tasty commercial Ceylon. New young owners bought the business
of the
old owner and they understand me better. But I did get my
first
Iranian tea called Nemooneh. It says Produced and Packaged in
Iran so
I guess that means homegrown at the outrageous price of
$4.50/500g. I
picked up some goat for a curry and injera bread for sopping
up the
stew.

Jim

Hamilcar Barca wrote in message
.. .
In article
(Fri, 30 Jul
2004 08:30:50 -0700), Space Cowboy wrote:

The Ceylon grades are mostly BOP, FBOP, OP. I've never
seen any that
looked like CTC.

Upton is advertising a Ceylon CTC.

I recently got a FBOPF where the leaf looks like a long
extremely thin half
white half black twist making a very sexy leaf.

That's some hot tea!