Every year, we taste a few teas that leave us speechless, such is their complexity, finesse and beauty. Price and rarity are no object: we have to buy them. This section is your chance to share in our journey through the tea stratosphere.

Dragon Well Firing Master

Our Pre-Rain Organic Dragon Well Supreme is hand-fired by a renowned master.



Pre Rain Organic Dragon Well Supreme Green Tea | Long Jing

Our highest grade Dragon Well green tea. Picked on 1st April 2009 from Dragon's Staff garden. The first of the year, before the Qing Ming festival.

Fair Trade Jasmine Pearls Green Tea   Organic Soil Association

On Stock 27 items

From £12.75 for 50g

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Organic Bohea Lapsang Supreme Black Tea | Wuyi Ji Ping Bohea Hong Cha

Rich, excitingly pungent, full of the rounded almost peaty smoke notes given by cunningly banked fires of local pine. Complex and teasing with a hazel-sweet freshness behind the supple smoke.

Organic Soil Association

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From £12.00 for 50g

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Pre Rain Organic Anji Bai Cha Green Tea

Picked on 3rd April 2009 before the Qing Ming festival from Undulating Retreat garden. Vivacious and exuberant flavours combine spring floral scents, sweet sappiness, and a lush texture.

Fair Trade Jasmine Pearls Green Tea   Organic Soil Association

On Stock 6 items

From £15.00 for 50g

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Keemun Mao Feng Black Tea (Keemun Hair Peak) | Keemun Mao Feng Hong Cha

The most outstanding example of a Keemun tea produced in the last three years.

On Stock 9658 items

From £6.35 for 50g

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1990s Royal Cooked Puerh (Loose) | 1990s Jun Shu Puerh

An extremely rare and beautifully aged loose leaf cooked puerh from the 1990s.

On Stock 0 items

From £7.70 for 50g

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Greenwood Estate Assam White Tea

This is the finest white tea from India that we have ever tasted.  Sprinkled with orange tea flowers the flavour is exceptionally floral and sweet.

On Stock 90 items

From £8.95 for 25g

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Big Red Robe Supreme Oolong Tea | Wuyi Da Hong Pao Wu Long

Intense, pure, deep and mineral, with great sappy persistence and depth. Gently peachy fruit behind, with a perfumed, honeysuckle finish. Complex and masterful.

On Stock 2 items

From £20.00 for 50g

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2003 Wild Yi Wu Raw Puerh

A beautifully aged puerh from Yi Wu with a distinctive silky and vaporous mouthfeel and sweet tobacco and sandalwood flavour.

On Stock 15 items

From £3.75 for 10g sample

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Finest and Rarest Tea Explorer

Experience some of the finest and rarest teas known to humanity.

On Stock 151 items

From £28.00 for JING Finest and Rarest Tea Explorer Teas

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Iron Arhat Oolong Tea | Wuyi Tie Luo Han Wu Long

Thick, glycerous, tongue-coating flavours of understated richness. The flavour repertoire includes burnt almond, minerals, apricot leaf and sandalwood.

On Stock 7 items

From £15.50 for 50g

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Lishan Oolong Tea | Taiwan Lishan Wu Long

From one of the premier regions in Taiwan, this tea is extremely floral, refreshing and palate cleansing, with a creamy and thick texture.  The ultimate experience of a lightly oxidised and fired Taiwan oolong tea.

On Stock 7 items

From £12.50 for 25g

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Water Sprite Supreme Oolong Tea | Wuyi Shui Xian Wu Long

Our highest grade Water Sprite oolong for this year. Graceful, rich and perfectly proportioned, with intricate notes of fragrant wood, gentle mineral oil, rose petal and peach leaf.

On Stock 13 items

From £18.50 for 50g

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Organic Jiande Green Buds Green Tea | Jiande Bao Cha

Picked on 1st April 2009 from the Outer Pagoda garden. One of this year's outstanding Chinese green teas and a new selection for JING. Richly textured with sweet spring flower and grass flavours.

Fair Trade Jasmine Pearls Green Tea   Organic Soil Association

 

On Stock 233 items

From £15.00 for 50g

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Japanese Hand-Made Gyokuro Supreme Green Tea from Uji

Picked between 29th April and 2nd May from Yamashita Fields. The finest Gyokuro green tea we have ever found.  Hand-rolled by one of the foremost Gyokuro producers in Japan.

On Stock 30 items

From £12.00 for 10g

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Imperial Concubine's Smile | Fei Zi Xiao

One of the most outstanding black teas we have stocked on the website. Picked from Zhengshan Garden in Wuyi, Fujian province in China.

Composed of remarkably long twisted black leaf, typical of the Bohea area in Wuyi. Full of caramel sweetness, maltiness and mineral and floral complexities. For the true black tea fan this is a must.

We have just over a kilo of this fantastic tea in stock.

On Stock 0 items

From £10.90 for 10g

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Golden Jun Mei | Jin Jun Mei

An extremely special and rare black tea from Wuyi in Fujian province in China. Picked from Zhengshan Tea Garden.

Quite simply one of the most exquisite examples of Chinese black tea we have ever come across.

Perfectly rounded malt flavours balanced with pristine sweetness and a super long finish.

On Stock 12 items

From £15.00 for 10g

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