Qimen Black tea is a famous Chinese tea with a history going back hundreds of years.

This is the highest grade Qimen Black that can be obtained on a regular basis, albeit in very limited quantities. It has hardly any astringency despite its strength, brewing to a chocolatey and malty cup with a slight lingering sweetness. Floral notes further accentuate its elegance.

Spring 2022 Harvest.

Ingredients: Black tea
Origin: Anhui, China
Caffeine: MED-HIGH

This tea gets its name due to the tree varietal growing wild in the mountains of Feng Qing.  It’s been processed so lightly, the green remains on its leaves, making it steep to a golden hue.  It’s slightly chocolatey with hints of stone fruit, with the surprise of aged rum in its finish. 

A truly rare and unique artisan tea, with only 70 KG produced annually. 

Spring 2022 Harvest. 

Ingredients: Black tea
Origin: Yunnan, China
Caffeine: MED-HIGH

Grown in the high altitude region of Simao, this black tea is expertly crafted and totally unique.  Its leaves are slightly fermented before being processed into black tea, creating a depth and earthiness to its body, while still remaining floral with notes of dried fruit throughout.

Delightful and interesting, and sure to create a conversation. 

Spring 2022 Harvest.

Ingredients: Black tea.
Origin: Yunnan, China
Caffeine: MED-HIGH

This beautiful white tea is straight from the first flush of the spring harvest.

Its leaves have been slightly wilted, then dried through a warm wind tunnel, resulting in downy buds and a sweet finish with notes of sugarcane and lychee.

Perfect for the white tea lover!

Spring 2022 Harvest. 

Ingredients: White tea.
Origin: Yunnan, China
Caffeine: LOW-MED

Don’t worry- this tea’s name comes from the savviness of the villagers in the area.

Wanting to guard their tea bushes, they told outsiders that the color of the soil was due to “copious amounts of duck shit”.

In truth, this tea brews to a gorgeous and sophisticated fruity-floral aroma with a rich and wonderful creaminess.

Winter 2021 Harvest

Ingredients: Oolong tea.
Origin: Guangdong, China
Caffeine: MED

Made from two varietals, this Assamica/Shui Xian hybrid is a vibrant and distinguished black tea with a unique flavor profile. It’s strong, malty, and robust, but leaves very little astringency and no bitterness on the palate, and its delightful chocolate finish is the cherry on top.

A total pleasure and a real treat for a black tea lover.

Spring 2022 Harvest. 

Ingredients: Black tea
Origin: Yunnan, China
Caffeine: MED-HIGH

Villagers in the Phoenix Mountains are responsible for the hilarious name of this tea. In trying to protect their fabulous tea bushes, they told outsiders that the yellowy brown soil the bushes grew in was colored that way due to an excessive amount of “duck shit”, hence keeping their precious tea leaves all to themselves!

In actuality, this oolong steeps to a beautiful flowery cup with notes of honey, and also holds on to its flavor through many steeps. And you’ll most likely get to keep your stash all to yourself!

Spring 2022 Harvest.

Ingredients: Oolong Tea
Origin: Guangdong province, China
Caffeine: MEDIUM

Imperial Red is a masterfully handcrafted small-batch single origin black tea with tasting notes characteristic of black teas from the WuYi Mountains - hints of cocoa, molasses, malt, and fruit with a natural sweetness that lingers on the palate.

This tea is roasted in bamboo baskets over charcoal fires and handmade, giving it a lovely appearance.

Imperial Red is an intriguing tea with complex flavors and a delicious aroma.

Ingredients: Black tea
Origin: Fujian, China
Caffeine: MED-HIGH

Sagarmatha Gold awarded 1st Place in an international tea tasting held at Mount Everest Base Camp in April 2018.

Named after Mount Everest, or "Sagarmatha" to the Nepalese, this stunning black tea is unlike any other. Tender buds are carefully plucked at 7,000 feet and naturally oxidized, resulting in a heady bouquet with a rich and chocolatey taste full of honey maple notes. Toasted almond hangs on the finish, creating a complex tea that is best appreciated in its pure form.

Sagarmatha Gold is one of our personal favorite black teas. It is not a strong bold black tea like an Assam, but rather a very well-balanced, fragrant, light black tea with notes of toasty bread and natural sweet honey.

2022 Harvest

Ingredients: Black tea.
Origin: Sumbek, Illam, Nepal
Caffeine: MED-HIGH

This rare and beautiful tea is a pure bud pick from established plants in the Mojiang area of Simao. It is a spring harvest tea that has been carefully processed to keep its lovely appearance and guard its subtle sugarcane and malty flavors.

We recommend steeping this tea one cup at a time at a lower temperature than other black teas to preserve its delicate flavors.

Spring 2022 Harvest. 

Ingredients: Black tea.
Origin: Mojiang, Yunnan, China
Caffeine: MED-HIGH

Imperial Grade Laoshan Black is the highest grade version of the already high grade Classic Laoshan Black.

This tea comes from the small family farm of the Liang family where all the growing and processing is done on site, under their strict control, to produce the highest quality result.

What separates this tea from the Classic Laoshan Black is that it's produced from the smallest tippy materials of the tea plants, which are hand selected one leaf at a time during the picking process and set aside for this small batch of tea.

This tea starts its growth under the protection of a greenhouse in the winter and early spring, then it's exposed to direct sunlight until picking season starts in late April to early May.

This tea is wonderfully sweet and thick, with notes of cane sugar and chocolate.

One of our favorites! 

Ingredients: Black tea
Origin: Shandong, China
Caffeine: HIGH

From the family farm of a nationally recognized tea master, this fabulous Mi Lan Xiang ("Honey Orchid Fragrance") Dan Cong Oolong tea sets itself apart with its distinctive golden color and strong fruity aromas.

This alluring and addictive tea has strong notes of orchid, honey, lychee and mango, with a touch of spice. It lingers on the palate for hours and will have you coming back for more.

2022 Harvest coming soon. 

Ingredients: Oolong tea.
Origin: Fenghuang, Hunan, China
Caffeine: MED

Tea Championship Winner
2nd Place, Dark Oolong

Plucked from the Annapurna Massif in the Himalayas, this tea is slowly oxidized in cold air then double fired, creating a sublime winner.

A stunning Darjeeling-style oolong, these notes of delicious, malted caramel and muscat grape with apricot will leave you soothed and invigorated.

Annapurna is Sanskrit for "Goddess of the Harvests," making this tea worthy of its name.

Ingredients: Oolong tea.
Origin: Ilam region, Nepal
Caffeine: MED

Global Tea Championship Winner
1st Place, Green Jasmine

Named after the alluring scent of jasmine blossoms on moonlit summer evenings, this gorgeous green tea sets a new bar for aromatic elegance.

Moonlight Jasmine is made from pure spring harvest buds which are left in their natural, slightly twisted shape instead of being rolled into a pearl.

One sip and you'll see why it's one of our most expensive teas.

Ingredients: Organic green tea with jasmine.
Origin: Yunnan, China
Caffeine: MED

Global Tea Championship Winner
1st Place Winner, Black Tea 

Himalayan Golden Black was a 1st Place Winner of the highly-competitive "Black Tea" category of the Global Tea Championship Awards. It is truly an outstanding black tea that reflects all of nature's goodness in a cup.

This highly sought after black tea is crafted by Himalayan monsoons and the fertile soils of Sandakphu in eastern Nepal. It's one of those small pockets of the world where the conditions are perfect for tea growing. After plucking, the leaves are 25 percent withered, then rolled in mechanical rollers. The tea is then placed in a shaping machine and further dried, producing uniformly curled leaves.

Tea producers from around the world came to this small artisan farm in Nepal to see how it was done.

Like a fine wine, this tea has a lovely balance of flavors: toasty and malty, with notes of stonefruit and honey. We're so lucky to get it and can't wait to share it with you!

2022 Harvest. 

Ingredients: Black tea.
Origin: Sandakphu, Ilam, Eastern Nepal
Caffeine: MED-HIGH