As the younger son of Dilmah’s Founder, Mr Merrill J. Fernando, Dilhan mirrors his father’s devotion to tea and his mission is the fulfilment of the pledges his father made in the 1950s, as a young tea man with a big dream. Dilhan is the Director of the Dilmah School of tea, the first international school of tea, with session in Colombo, and in partnership with the Institute Paul Bocuse, also in Ecully, France. His desire to share the pleasure in tea with a new generation of tea drinkers saw the birth of the t-Series, designer gourmet teas www.teatimerocks.com and an entirely contemporary approach to a traditional beverage