Darjeeling is a place before it is a tea — a protected appellation of eighty-seven registered gardens, each on its own ridge, each with its own weather, water and leaf. We taste across the appellation each season and choose the lots most deserving of the tins.
Kurseong Valley · Est. 1888
Giddapahar Tea Estate.
The Eagle’s Cliff. One of Darjeeling’s smallest gardens, family-owned since the nineteenth century, its century-old Chinary bushes climbing from 4,500 feet above the Kurseong valley. Today, every tea in our collection is plucked, made and tasted here.
The Darjeeling hills, drawn by hand — a bearing, not a survey.
Gardens join slowly, by design.
A garden enters this page the way a tea enters the collection: after seasons of tasting, a visit to the hillside, and an agreement we can stand behind.
As new partnerships with GI-registered gardens are formalised, each will be introduced here with its own name, altitude and history — never before.
