Cloud settling over the high Darjeeling ridges at dusk

Master’s Reserve

The few lots we set aside.

Some seasons give a lot that should not be blended away.

Most of what a garden makes is good. Once in a while a lot arrives that is more than good — where the elevation, the weather and the making all land at once, and the cup says something the garden has not said before and may not say again.

Those we keep apart. Not because they are scarce for scarcity’s sake, but because a lot like that deserves to be poured as itself, named, dated and whole — rather than disappearing into a larger, steadier blend.

Three things, and all three at once.

A singular cup

It has to taste of somewhere — a character the tasting table can name and argue about, not simply a clean, correct tea.

A single estate, whole

One garden, one harvest, kept intact from lot to caddy. Nothing married in to stretch it or steady it.

Finite, and honest about it

We hold back only what the lot actually yielded. The number produced is printed, not implied.

Held by the house, this season.

Second Flush · Summer

Summer Muscatel Black

The classic muscat-grape Darjeeling — the cup for which these hills are celebrated the world over.

Garden: Giddapahar
Harvest: Second Flush · 2026
Produced: 112 caddies
Serial: HOA-GID-2624-0007

The style

The House Selection

Darjeeling Signature

The house's defining estate cup — balanced, amber and refined.

Between lots. The next reserve selection will be named here.

The style

The hill railway threading the Darjeeling slopes in low light

Poured once, remembered longer.

Reserve lots are offered one conversation at a time.

Tell us the table you are setting, and the house will tell you what is left.