Exceptional tea. Selected at its origin.

Built on decades of experience and lasting relationships, we select teas that meet our uncompromising standards. Every harvest is evaluated anew.

We believe exceptional tea must be good for the landscape, good for the tea plant, and good for the tea drinker.

Selected teas are offered once a year, after the harvest, in limited quantities.

Origin Tea Selection follows independent tea places around the world and helps selected harvests reach the people who value them.

Tea, true to its place.

Start here

Places. Makers. Harvests. Tea drinkers.

We begin with the place.

Mountain, forest, water, soil — before the tea.

We return to specific plots, groups of trees, and sometimes a single tree.

Understanding begins by knowing exactly where the tea grows.

Good makers respond to the year they are given.

They do not force every harvest into the same result.

Tea should still carry the place it came from.

We connect selected harvests with people who care about that.

Know a tea place we should see?

Anyone may introduce one. We observe before we select.

Selected harvests can be reserved and ordered personally.

Quality decides which tea is offered.