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.



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

From £12.75 for 50g


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

From £12.00 for 50g


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

From £15.00 for 50g


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.

From £6.35 for 50g


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

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

From £7.70 for 50g


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.

From £8.95 for 25g


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.

From £20.00 for 50g


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.

From £3.75 for 10g sample


Finest and Rarest Tea Explorer

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

From £28.00 for JING Finest and Rarest Tea Explorer Teas


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.

From £15.50 for 50g


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.

From £12.50 for 25g


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.

From £18.50 for 50g


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

 

From £15.00 for 50g


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.

From £12.00 for 10g


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.

From £10.90 for 10g


Japanese Sencha Shincha Green Tea from Wazuka, Uji

Picked between 27th April-3rd May from Minamiyama Shiromura Gardens. Our Sencha Shincha green tea was picked during the first month's harvest of Sencha. Little of the first month's harvest is available outside of Japan and we were only able to secure 1kg of this extremely special tea.

From £12.90 for 25g


Japanese Gyokuro Shincha Green Tea from Wazuka, Uji

Picked between 1st-5th May from Wazuka Gardens. Our Gyokuro Shincha was picked during the first month's harvest. Little of the first month's harvest is for sale outside of Japan.

From £17.50 for 25g


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.

From £15.00 for 10g


Dragon Well Firing Master

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

Suggested Teaware for Finest and Rarest Teas

White Gaiwan 175ml

A beautifully simple and robust handmade white porcelain gaiwan.

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£18.30 for White Gaiwan 175ml


Bamboo Water Tray

Beautifully hand made in Taiwan from many layers of bamboo. This tray is the indispensable accessory to good tea making. Size 25x16x5cm. 

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£19.99 for Bamboo Water Tray