Tea merchants · from the garden to your cup
Tea picked at its peak, steeped with care.
Green, white, oolong and black teas bought directly from the gardens and sealed in small tins the season they are plucked. Every tea comes with its steeping guide: water, time and number of infusions.
Tasted cup after cup, harvest after harvest.
- 38 gardens we buy from directly
- 2 + 1 two leaves and a bud, plucked by hand
- 1 in 12 lots pass our tasting
- 72 h from our tea room to your door
From garden to cup
A tea merchant’s craft, one harvest at a time.
We taste every lot at the garden, buy it the season it is plucked and seal it away from light and air, so that it reaches your pot as fragrant as the day it was made.
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Pluck
Two leaves and a bud, picked by hand at dawn in small gardens, at the peak of each flush. Fewer than one lot in twelve makes our list.
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Craft
Withered, rolled, oxidised or not, then fired: each family has its own gestures, followed by the tea makers we have worked with for years.
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Seal & send
Sealed in airtight tins or refill pouches, the plucking date on the label, and sent with a steeping guide written for each tea.
This season’s harvest
Latest products
The six colours of tea
One leaf, six families.
Every tea comes from the same plant, Camellia sinensis: the way its leaves are crafted, and how far they oxidise, gives each family its colour.
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White
Fujian · Silver Needle
Downy buds, honey and hay, a pale golden cup.
80 °C · 4 min
Oxidation Light -
Green
Shizuoka · Sencha
Fresh grass, sea air and a sweet umami finish.
70 °C · 1 min 30
Oxidation None -
Yellow
Hunan · Junshan Yinzhen
Mellow and rare, toasted rice and sweet corn.
80 °C · 3 min
Oxidation Light -
Oolong
Taiwan · Alishan
Orchid and butter, rolled leaves that open cup after cup.
95 °C · 3 min
Oxidation Partial -
Black
Assam · Second flush
Malty and bold, with a hint of cocoa, lovely with milk.
95 °C · 4 min
Oxidation Full -
Dark
Yunnan · Pu-erh
Aged in cakes for years, earthy, woody and deep.
100 °C · 30 s
Oxidation Aged