PIONEERS OF SINGLE ESTATE TEA

We are the world’s first tea company to tell its customers where all our teas come from.  Our unique postmark provenance on each caddy or postcard tells where each tea was made and who made it, even with our blends. This kind of information is common with wine which is also produced in the area where it is grown, but a year after we introduced our new labelling in 2009 we are still the only international tea company to offer it.  We are able to tell our customers more as we have travelled across Asia for over a decade to meet many of today’s most celebrated tea makers. One day we hope all quality tea companies will follow our lead on provenance, making a new age of knowledge and appreciation of fine single estate tea possible.  In the meantime join us in learning more about the importance of provenance in protecting traditional tea culture through our interviews with leading tea makers at www.singleestatetea.com

Master Luo competing in 2007 when he won his first "West Lake Long Jing Fire King" title.

To buy Master Luo's West Lake Long Jing, please click here.

Timothy d'Offay is one of the most widely travelled tea experts in the world today. Over the last decade, he has regularly visited India, Sri Lanka, Korea, China, Taiwan, and Japan to work with some of the world's finest small scale family tea producers.

These extensive travels gave the company its name as well as providing a range of rare and unique teas.  Teas sourced or blended by Timothy for other companies can be found at Asprey, Selfridges, Liberty, Harrods and Dean & Deluca amongst others.

The store is located just off New Bond Street at 9 Dering Street in an 18th century building where tea was first sold over 200 years ago. At that time Dering Street was called Union Street and the ground floor was a grocery store that supplied the Mayfair area. It is near both Bond Street and Oxford Circus stations. We are open Monday to Saturday 10-30 to 6-30. All the teas we import or blend can be tried at the tasting table.

The teas are available in caddies or our unique Tea Postcard packs which can be sent anywhere in the world by posting them in our very own red postbox. As well as teas, we have a wide range of specialist tea accessories and handmade teaware from all over the world much of which is available online too. The store is also the location of our tea school which holds regular tastings and events, please see our Tea School page for details.

What's New

Our new exhibition of Japanese ceramics is now open. If you wish to order any of the works shown below, please come to the shop and find the special ones you like. The potters we work with can also be commissioned to make new works.

The handmade ceramics above are made by Keiko Hasegawa

 

Iron Casted Kettles by Master Sasaki Kazuo from Kunzan, which is a 3rd generation Japanese iron casting foundry specializing in traditional iron cast tea kettles called tetsubin.

 

Four Seasons Tea Cups and Teapots by Motoko Hasegawa

 

Handmade Tea cups by Akihiro & Yoshihiro Furuya