One named tea from each of twelve countries, from Zhejiang Longjing to wild Cederberg rooibos. Every card links to the vendor’s own product page.
Pins mark each tea’s growing region; where a vendor names only a country, the pin is country-level.
Prices are for the package size shown, before shipping. Three come from UK vendors and are priced in GBP.
SignatureChinaRed Blossom Tea Company
Longjing is the flat, pan-fired green tea of Zhejiang. This lot comes from Panan County, south of the West Lake area, and was picked in the two weeks between Qing Ming and the...
SignatureTaiwanFloating Leaves Tea
Dong Ding is the rolled oolong of Lugu Township in Nantou, traditionally roasted. Mr. Lin roasted this Qing Xin Wulong lot over charcoal for a long, low session in July 2026....
SignatureJapanIn Pursuit of Tea
Gyokuro is shade-grown before the spring harvest, which cuts the catechins that make tea astringent and raises theanine. This lot is from Uji, where the style began in the 1800s....
SignatureIndiaIn Pursuit of Tea
Jungpana, founded in 1899 and sitting at about 5,000 feet, is one of the most remote gardens in Darjeeling. This is lot DJ 10 from the spring 2026 first flush, the first picking...
SignatureSri LankaUpton Tea Imports
Lover’s Leap is a 19th-century estate at about 6,000 feet in Nuwara Eliya, the highest of Sri Lanka’s tea districts. Upton lists a citrus, biscuit aroma, honey sweetness and...
SignatureKenyaUpton Tea Imports
Kenya is the world’s biggest exporter of black tea, mostly CTC for tea bags. Purple tea is the exception: high levels of anthocyanin, the pigment in blueberries, tint the leaves....
SignatureNepalIn Pursuit of Tea
Jun Chiyabari is a high-elevation farm in eastern Nepal, over the border from Darjeeling. This is its oolong, made from small leaves and buds, with a floral aroma and a caramel,...
SignatureVietnamWhat-Cha
Shan Tuyet ("snow mountain") trees in northern Vietnam are their own variety, pubilimba, distinct from the assamica used for most pu-erh. This 2016 cake from Tay Con Linh in Ha...
SignatureSouth KoreaHarney & Sons
Korean green tea grades follow the picking date; sejak is picked just after the first flush. Jeju is a volcanic island off Korea’s southern tip with tea fields on its slopes....
SignatureGeorgiaWhat-Cha
Georgia grew much of the Soviet Union’s tea, and small farms are now reviving it. This organic black tea from Imereti, harvested summer 2025, is listed as very fruity with no...
SignatureMalawiHarney & Sons
Satemwa, founded in 1923 on the slopes of Malawi’s Shire Highlands, is the last family-owned and run tea estate in the country. This black tea is made from Bvumbwe, a cultivar...
SignatureSouth AfricaRare Tea Company
Rooibos ("red bush") is a South African legume, not tea, so it has no caffeine. It only grows naturally in a small area of the Western Cape around the Cederberg mountains. Rare...
One tea per country, twelve countries, chosen to cover the range: steamed and pan-fired greens, a light and a roasted oolong, first-flush Darjeeling and high-grown Ceylon, a Kenyan purple-leaf tea, an aged raw cake from Vietnam, and a caffeine-free rooibos. Each is a real product from a named vendor, in stock when we checked.
Origin, cultivar, elevation and harvest facts come from the vendor’s product page. Where a vendor does not publish a fact, the detail view says so instead of guessing. We do not score or rank these teas, and we earn nothing from the links.