ORIGIN
Nepal
ALTITUDE
4,000–8,000 ft
TYPE
Black Tea
FLAVOR
Malty
YIELD
20–43 cups
Hand-picked tea leaves from Nepal
ORIGIN

From the Himalayas, to Your Cup

This tea is grown in the high hills of eastern Nepal, on gardens that sit between 4,000 and 8,000 feet. At that height, the air stays thin and cool even in peak season, so the plant grows slower than it would lower down — and a slower leaf is a more concentrated one. Every leaf here is still hand-picked, the way it's been done on these hillsides for generations, by farming families Himalko buys directly from. No brokers stacked in between, no blending in leaf from elsewhere to stretch a batch.

Every leaf here is still hand-picked, the way it's been done on these hillsides for generations, by farming families Himalko buys directly from.

8,000 ft
Himalko's gardens
4,000 ft
CRAFT

Orthodox, not mass-produced

Most black tea on grocery shelves is CTC — crush, tear, curl — built by machine for speed and tea bags. This is the slower, orthodox way.

01

Pluck

Two leaves and a bud, taken by hand from gardens at 4,000–8,000 ft.

02

Wither

Leaves are spread out to soften and lose moisture before rolling.

03

Hand-roll

Rolled by hand to shape the leaf and release its natural oils — no machine curl.

04

Oxidize

Rolled leaves rest and oxidize, building the tea's colour and backbone.

05

Dry & sort

Fired to lock in aroma, then sorted by hand for quality.

TASTING NOTES

Fruity. Floral. Full-bodied.

Straight from the product description, in plain terms.

AROMA

A slightly floral lift over a warm, rustic base — you'll smell the malt before you taste it.

PALATE

Fruity, with clear notes of orange sitting on top of a rustic, full-bodied black tea.

FINISH

Smooth and sublime, without the flat bitterness of lower broken-leaf grades.

WHY THIS TEA

Why buy this over the grocery-store box?

1

Direct from the garden

Himalco buys straight from small growers in Nepal — fewer middlemen, fresher leaf, and more of what you spend actually reaches the people who grew it.

2

Orthodox, not CTC

Himalco buys straight from small growers in Nepal — fewer middlemen, fresher leaf, and more of what you spend actually reaches the people who grew it.

3

Single-origin, traceable

Himalco buys straight from small growers in Nepal — fewer middlemen, fresher leaf, and more of what you spend actually reaches the people who grew it.

4

Whole leaf, not broken

Himalco buys straight from small growers in Nepal — fewer middlemen, fresher leaf, and more of what you spend actually reaches the people who grew it.

HIMALKO LOOSE LEAF
TYPICAL TEA BAG
Leaf Quality
Whole leaf, orthodox processed
Dust and fannings — the leftover bits too small to sell whole
Flavor
Layered, evolves as it steeps
Flat and one-note — brews fast, tastes shallow
Oxidation Control
Whole leaf oxidizes evenly and predictably
Small particles over-oxidize fast, turning bitter within minutes
Re-Steeping
Good for 2–3 infusions
Spent after one steep — nothing left in the dust
Packaging
One pouch, reusable infuser
Bag, string, paper tag, and individual wrapper — most of it single-use
Traceability
Single garden, single harvest
Usually a blend of lots from multiple countries and harvests
BREWING

How to brew it right

LEAF
1 tbsp
1.5–3g per 8oz water
WATER
200–212°F
Just off the boil
STEEP
2–5 min
Shorter for a lighter cup
One 2oz pouch brews up to 20 cups; the 4oz size stretches to 43 — plenty to figure out your ideal steep time.
Recyclable packaging. Every tin ships in a curbside-recyclable cardboard tube, not plastic — one more small way to keep this closer to the way tea used to come.
ECO-FRIENDLY
AIR-SEAL LID
KEEPS FRESHNESS
FOIL-LINED INTERIOR

What actually shows up at your door

This is the real tube — mountain-line logo, a hand-drawn tea shoot on the front, and the full brew guide (hot, iced, and cold-brew instructions) printed right on the back, so you're never digging through a drawer for a card you lost.

No shrink-wrap, no plastic tin, no printed inserts to throw away separately. Just one recyclable tube, front to back.

A thin foil liner sits inside the tube itself — isolating the leaf from outside air and moisture — so the outer packaging can stay simple cardboard without the tea losing freshness.

Questions

A few things people ask

What makes this different from other black teas?

How much caffeine does this tea have?

Can I drink this with milk?

Can I re-steep the leaves?

How should I store it to keep it fresh?

What if I don't like it?