A French Press, our 2-in-1 Tea Scoop, a handcrafted stoneware teacup, and 2oz of your choice of tea — everything needed to go from box to first cup, gift-boxed in an elegant gift bag.
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That's what you're actually giving.
Everything needed to go from unopened box to a proper cold brew — plus a gift bag, so it's ready to hand over as-is.
Use the tea scoop for a consistent, level measure of whichever tea you chose.
Add hot water at 175°F, let it steep 2–3 minutes, then plunge.
Pour straight from the press into your handmade stoneware cup.
Use the scoop's clip end to seal the tin before putting it away.
A tea gift alone assumes the person already owns the right equipment. This one doesn't assume anything.
The French press and scoop make loose leaf approachable for someone who's only ever used bags.
The set is $44.99, marked down from its $59.99 list price — a real discount on top of getting the full kit together.
Nepal has been growing tea since 1863, when the Ilam Tea Estate was planted in the hills near the Indian border — legend has it the first tea bushes in the country came from seeds gifted by the Chinese Emperor to Nepal's Prime Minister a few years earlier. Gajraj Singh Thapa is the name credited with actually putting those first bushes in the ground.
For most of the century that followed, Nepali tea lived in Darjeeling's shadow. The two regions share nearly identical growing conditions — same altitude, same soil, same stretch of the Eastern Himalayas — but political isolation under Nepal's Rana dynasty kept the industry small while Darjeeling, developed under British colonial rule, built a global name for itself. A lot of Nepali tea historically ended up sold to Darjeeling processors under someone else's label.
That started to change after Nepal opened up to more investment in the mid-1900s, and picked up further once tea-growing zones were formally established in the early 1980s. In the decades since, Nepali orthodox tea has steadily grown in both output and quality — the same growing conditions that make Darjeeling famous, producing tea that most people outside Nepal have simply never had the chance to try.
That's the gap Himalco exists to close.
Tea leaves naturally contain polyphenols and catechins, the same class of plant compounds found in berries and dark chocolate.
An amino acid unique to tea, often associated with a calmer, more even kind of alertness than coffee alone.
Brewed tea is over 99% water — a genuine way to add to your daily fluid intake, not just a caffeine delivery method.
Steeping takes a few minutes by design — a small, repeatable moment to slow down before the next thing.
