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Single-garden Nepali tea · 1,300–1,800 m

Black tea that
never needs milk.

Grown slowly in the cold air below Kanchanjangha, hand-plucked and sealed at origin — so there's no bitterness to hide, and nothing to blend it with.

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Summit Gold
Summit Gold Wild honey. Zero bitterness.
1996
Certified organic since
100+
Farming families, one garden
Dated
Harvest on every tin

Scan & trace

Every tin knows whose hands picked it.

There's a QR code on every tea packaging. Scan it and you land on the leaf's own page: the farmer, the section of the garden it came from, the day it was plucked, and how it was finished.

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Point your camera at the tin.
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Meet the farmer, the plot, the pluck date.
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Brew it the way they'd brew it at home.
Tara Khatiwada
Example scan · Summit Gold Tara Khatiwada Withering and processing on the factory floor, five seasons on the estate.
Estate Kanchanjangha
Elevation 1,300–1,800 m
Harvest Second flush

Why it tastes different

Three things you can taste in the cup

Slow-grown
Between 1,300 and 1,800 metres the leaf grows against the cold. Slower growth, denser sugars — sweetness where lowland tea turns astringent.
Sealed at origin
Tinned in the same valley it's grown in, days after plucking — not warehoused for a year and repacked overseas.
One garden, never blended
Every tin is one garden, one harvest. Nothing is cut with cheaper leaf to hold a house flavor steady.

The leaf, up close

Whole leaf, never dust

Summit Gold
Summit Gold
Mist & Moonbeam
Mist & Moonbeam
Everest Emerald
Everest Emerald
Amber Ridge
Amber Ridge
In the cup
In the cup

Us vs. the shelf

Most “Himalayan” tea passes through an auction, a broker and a blending house before it reaches you. Ours doesn't move at all until it's sealed.

Third Peak
Supermarket tea
“Himalayan” blends
Named garden on the label
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Harvest date, not just “best before”
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Scan the tin, meet the farmer
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One garden, never blended
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Sometimes
Farmers paid direct, no auction
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Three to start with

Summit Gold Loose leaf only
Black

Summit Gold

Caramel, baked fruits, honey

$34.00 Add
Mist & Moonbeam Loose leaf only
White — Reserve

Mist & Moonbeam

Vanilla, buttercream, fresh flowers

$34.00 Add
Everest Emerald Loose leaf & tea bags
Green — Focus

Everest Emerald

Umami, roasted nuts, floral

$26.00 Add
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The tea estate

Owned by the families who grow it

Our garden has been certified organic since 1996, and farmed that way on an estate established in 1984. The same families who own it pluck, wither, roll and sort every leaf.

Read the full story
Tea master — 10 years at KTERC Chandra Prakash Bhattarai “You don't always have to start with a calling. Sometimes, you grow into it.” Read the story
Factory worker — 5 years at KTERC Tara Khatiwada “Tea has given me more than a paycheck. It's given me a circle of strong women who lift each other up.” Read the story
Back in the Ilam gardens that raised him Sujan Limbu “I am not the man who almost gave up. I am the man tea brought back.” Read the story
Grows and processes his own leaf Bikram Chemjong “Every cup shared was a small bridge between two lives.” Read the story