Tea from the
garden that made it.
Single Estate. Limited batches
We never blend leaves across origins. Every package is marked and traceable to a single garden, a single season, and a single master.
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The three pillars
Single estate only
By partnering with single estates, we cut out the middleman. You get world-class tea that’s traceable back to the very bushes where it grew.
Limited batches only
Because we only source the best seasonal picks, our batches are very small and exclusive. It’s not made for the mass-market; only made for you
HIghest grade only
These leaves are tough. One serving is strong enough to be steeped 3 or 4 times, revealing new flavors with every pour. It’s tea that actually lasts.
Limited Batches
What is a Batch?
Each harvest produces a fixed, finite amount of tea. We divide our allocation into small batches and number them from 001. Batch 001 is the first to open. When it closes, Batch 002 opens. And so on until the season's allocation is gone.
The Estate Collection
Whole Leaves, Zero Dust.
We only pack full, intact leaves. No floor sweepings hiding behind a teabag here
Single Origin
Each batch comes from a single backyard in the world’s best tea gardens, so you taste the soil and the season.
Small Batches with a Big Heart.
By sourcing in limited runs, we ensure every leaf is at its peak freshness when it reaches your kettle.
Frequently asked questions
What makes your tea different from what I buy in a supermarket?
The short version: they're both called tea. Beyond that, they have almost nothing in common.
Almost everything. Supermarket tea is blended — leaves from multiple origins mixed together to hit a consistent flavour and price point. Ours is single estate: one garden, one harvest, one season. Nothing is blended with anything else.
Supermarket tea is also mostly fannings — the small fragments and dust left after the quality leaf has been sorted. We use whole leaf only. Whole leaf steeps differently, releases flavour slowly over multiple infusions, and carries far more of the tea's actual character.
What does "single estate" actually mean?
It means every leaf in the bag comes from one named garden. Not a region. Not a country. A specific piece of land, at a specific elevation, tended by a specific team.
In wine, you'd call it a single-vineyard. In coffee, single-origin. The principle is identical: the character of the cup reflects the character of the place it came from. Elevation, soil, microclimate, the hands that harvested it — all of it arrives in the leaf.
That's why we print the estate name, elevation, and harvest season on every bag. It's not decoration. It's the product.
Is the jasmine in the Fujian tea natural or artificial?
Natural. Entirely.
Most jasmine teas on the market are scented with jasmine oil or flavouring — sprayed onto the leaf. You can taste the difference. It sits on top of the tea rather than inside it. Thin, synthetic, one-dimensional.
Ours is scented the traditional way at Fuding Garden. Fresh jasmine blossoms are picked from the valley floor each evening and laid over the green tea leaves through the night. In the morning the jasmine is removed and the process repeats. Three rounds. Seventy-two hours total. The jasmine's character moves into the leaf itself.
No oil. No flavouring. No shortcuts.
What is a batch number and why does it matter?
Each harvest produces a fixed, finite amount of tea. We divide our allocation into small batches and number them from 001. Batch 001 is the first to open. When it closes, Batch 002 opens. And so on until the season's allocation is gone.
The number on your bag tells you exactly where in the season your tea comes from. It's the difference between knowing you have a bottle of wine, and knowing you have bottle 312 from a run of 500 from a specific vineyard in a specific year.
When the final batch closes, it does not reopen. The next allocation — if we can secure one — won't be until the following harvest season.
Will you restock when a batch sells out?
No. When a batch closes, it closes permanently.
We work with a fixed seasonal allocation from each estate. We don't blend across seasons, we don't buy from intermediaries to top up stock, and we don't hold back inventory. What you see on the site is exactly what exists.
When the season's final batch is gone, we join the waitlist for next year's harvest alongside everyone else. If you want to be notified when new batches open — including the following season — join the waitlist on the product page.
What does "made to order" mean?
It means we don't hold finished, packed bags on a shelf waiting for orders. When you place an order, your bag is weighed, packed, sealed, and labelled. Then it ships.
This is how we maintain freshness and how we keep batch integrity — every bag that leaves carries the correct batch number for the tea inside it. Nothing sits. Nothing ages on a warehouse shelf.
It means your order takes a little longer to dispatch than a standard e-commerce product. We think that's worth it. The bag that arrives was packed specifically for your order.
How do I make these teas? Do I need special equipment?
No special equipment needed. A teapot with an infuser, a tea strainer, or a simple loose leaf basket works perfectly. The only thing worth having is a thermometer or a kettle with temperature control — because water temperature matters more than most people realise.
Boiling water (100°C) is too hot for green tea and Darjeeling. It scalds the leaf, destroys the delicate flavour compounds, and produces bitterness. If you don't have a thermometer, boil and wait two minutes. That drops the temperature to around 80–85°C. Close enough.