Dilmah Tea Estates in Sri Lanka

Tea pickers on a break, applauding in the tea field

Our Tea Estates

All proceeds of Dilmah's tea sales flow back to it's origin; Sri Lanka. It supports the work of the MJF Charitable Foundation and Dilmah Conservation. It changes the lives of the people living on and around the tea estates and lifts them out of poverty with education, healthcare, elderly care, disabled and underprivileged, supporting small entrepreneurs and so on. Dilmah Conservation initiates and maintains dozens of projects pertaining to ecology, biodiversity and wildlife protection.

Somerset Tea Estate

A cup of kindness, that’s what it is all about. Charity for both the land, the tea pickers and the tea drinkers. Get to know one of the locations where kindness starts and grows: the Somerset Tea Estate.

Craighead Tea Estate

Your purchase makes a big difference since you buy from a Sri Lankan company that owns the entire production chain (from bush to bag) adding love and care for the people and planet to every step. Let's visit Tea Estate Craighead.

Dunkeld Tea Estate

Many families live on and around our Dunkeld plantation, and because you are buying from a tea company with Sri Lankan owners, all proceeds go back into the local economy, so your purchase helps take care of its many families and villagers.

Tea pickers at Dilmah Holyrood tea estate.webp

Interspersed with waterfalls, rising mountain tops and natural beauty that the island formerly known as Serendib is bestowed with rises the heart of Sri Lanka's tea country.

smiling tea picker at work in the tea garden

Speak of a labour of love

Established during the late 19th century in Colonial Ceylon, nowadays the beauty of the tea gardens, alongside the thousands of tea pickers, speak of a labour of love. Each day, thousands of tea pickers with nimble fingers handpick the two leaves and bud which is then manufactured in the traditional way, with the art of the teamaker and nature’s best coming together which also helps the tea pickers and their families. This is what we speak of when we speak of a labour of love.