est. 2022 · single-estate · hand-annotated
Tea worth
slowing down for.
Loose-leaf teas from single-estate gardens in Darjeeling, Uji, and Nantou.
Hand-annotated with altitude, flush, and steeping notes.
This Month's Curation
What's in the parcel
Darjeeling · 1,850 m
Thurbo Silver Tips
First Flush 2026
Mar–Apr · Closing soon
Uji · 300 m
Uji Gyokuro Asahi
morning cup, still
altitude in every leaf
the mountain lingers
Nantou · 1,200 m
Dong Ding Oolong
Winter Harvest 2025
Dec–Jan · In stock
Darjeeling · 1,700 m
Singbulli Muscatel
Nantou · 1,600 m
Alishan High Mountain
roasted winter oolong
warmth that lingers past the cup
nantou remembers
Uji · 250 m
Okumidori Matcha
Where the leaves come from
Three gardens.
One parcel.
Every estate is visited annually. Every flush is tasted before it ships.
Darjeeling
West Bengal, India
87 gardens
we source from
1,200–2,100 m
altitude range
Muscatel, floral, brisk. The champagne of teas — fragile, seasonal, and deeply terroir-driven.
Harvest windows
Uji
Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
4 estates
direct partnership
200–400 m
altitude range
Umami-forward, grassy, sweet. Where shade-growing becomes an art form — gyokuro and matcha at their purest.
Harvest windows
Nantou
Central Taiwan
1,600 m avg
garden altitude
800–2,600 m
altitude range
Roasted warmth to high-mountain floral. Taiwan's central county produces oolongs of extraordinary range and depth.
Harvest windows
What subscribers write
The cup finds its moment.
"The Thurbo Silver Tips arrived with a little card noting the exact altitude and picker. I steeped it in my grandmother's gaiwan. That first cup was the best thing that happened to me in February."
Margaret Chen
Home brewer, San Francisco
Subscriber since March 2024
"I sent the Dong Ding box to my father for his birthday. He called me the next morning — first time he'd rung just to talk in years. The tea was the excuse."
David Okafor
Gift subscriber, Brooklyn
Gifted 3 boxes
"I work remotely. My 3pm cup used to be a coffee I didn't want. Now it's the Uji Gyokuro, and it actually marks the end of deep work. That sounds small. It isn't."
Priya Nair
Product designer, Austin
Monthly subscriber
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