Our approach · Single estate
Most supermarket tea is a blend. Leaves from many countries and many farms are mixed to make a tea that tastes the same every time. It is consistent, but it rarely tastes of anywhere.
What “single estate” means
A single-estate tea comes from one garden. Nothing is blended in. What you taste is the work of one group of growers, in one place, in one season.
Why it matters
- You can trace your tea back to its garden.
- The flavour reflects the place, the season and the weather.
- More of the value stays with the farmers who grew it.
Every season is a little different
Because single-estate teas are not blended to a fixed recipe, this year’s spring harvest will not be exactly the same as last year’s. We see that as part of the pleasure: each batch is a snapshot of a garden at one moment in time.
How we choose
We taste each lot from our partner gardens in eastern Nepal and select only the teas we would happily drink every day.