Uda Pussellawa
A Sri Lankan high-grown district between Nuwara Eliya and Uva, producing a tea that shares characteristics of both — bright like Nuwara Eliya, with something of Uva’s aromatic edge.
Elevation
Recorded at 900–1600 metres.
How firm this is: Inferred from general knowledge of the district rather than measured or taken from a source that states it.
When it is picked
The district that gets both quality seasons and neither of them fully. Sitting between the Uva and Nuwara Eliya slopes, it catches a share of the eastern mid-year window and a share of the western turn-of-year one, and its teas are correspondingly harder to characterise — which is most of why the name is less familiar than its neighbours'.
How firm this is: Inferred from general knowledge of the district rather than measured or taken from a source that states it.
How the name is written
Also transliterated as uda pussellawa. Romanisations of a district name vary by system and by vendor, and a packet spelling one way is not describing a different place.
Other teas recorded from here
Other growing regions in Sri Lanka
The neighbouring districts are the useful comparison: they share a country, a grading convention and often a cultivar, so what differs between them is closer to terroir than anything a cross-border comparison can isolate.
Sources
- TeaHQ editorial synthesis — TeaHQ
This page is TeaHQ’s own synthesis throughout. No external document stands behind the elevation band, the climate note or the character described above, which is why each carries its confidence in the open.
Written comparisons
Where TeaHQ has set this region against something it is routinely confused with, and argued the differences out in full.
- Uda Pussellawa vs Uva — Two adjacent Sri Lankan high-grown districts, one famous and one not. Uda Pussellawa sits between Nuwara Eliya and Uva and shares characteristics with both, which is precisely why it is so rarely sold under its own name.