Black and dark teas
Malty breakfast teas, Darjeeling and aged pu-erh.
Fully oxidised black teas and aged pu-erh. Boiling water, and most take milk if you like it.
Darjeeling first flush
Darjeeling, India (sample)
Pale and lively for a black tea; muscat grape and spring flowers.
50 g $13
100 g $24
Assam second flush
Assam, India
Malty and brisk; takes milk well. Our breakfast tea.
50 g $7
100 g $12
Raw pu-erh, 2015 cake
Yunnan, China
Aged ten years: apricot, wet stone and camphor. Sold by the 25 g piece.
50 g $8
100 g $15
Ripe pu-erh
Yunnan, China
Earthy, smooth and dark; forest floor and dates. Brews many times.
50 g $8
100 g $14
Example prices. Harvests (sample).
Where our tea comes from
We buy from a handful of gardens we know by name, taste every lot before it reaches the shelf and buy again only when the new harvest is as good.
Shizuoka, Japan
Sencha from a family farm that steams its leaf the same morning it is picked.
Anxi and Wuyi, China
Oolongs from two cooperatives; the rock oolong is roasted over charcoal in autumn.
Darjeeling, India
First and second flush from one estate, bought by the lot after tasting samples.
Yunnan, China
Raw and ripe pu-erh pressed into cakes by a small factory we have visited twice.
Come and taste first
The tasting table is open from 11:00 every day except Monday. Taste any tea on the shelf before you buy it; there is no charge.