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Taste tea in your own note.

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Our name

Rooted in the balance of the Eastern way of tea, we bring each leaf, in its many forms, into the different rhythms of life.

Leaf

One leaf, many forms

A single tea leaf can take many forms: loose leaf, powder, pressed cake. Paired with the right vessel, it finds its way into the different scenes of life.

Note

Your own note on life

A note is a tasting journal, and a note in music. Fast has its meaning, and slow has its own. Everyone has a note that is theirs alone.

One leaf, many forms

This season, the leaf becomes a powder.

Real tea, brewed and freeze-dried. It dissolves in cold water, so tea can go where you go: the gym, the trail, the road.

  1. PowderCold Brew Tea Sticks
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  2. LeafSeasonal loose leaf, for the gaiwan
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  3. CakePressed tea, made to keep
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Cold brew tea sticks

Three teas. Tear a stick, pour it into cold water, shake.

How to buy

Black Tea

Malty and round, with a honeyed finish.

$XX

Green Tea

Fresh and grassy, lightly sweet.

$XX

Jasmine Green Tea

Floral and bright, with a clean finish.

$XX

A day in notes

It isn’t really about the tea. It’s the few minutes you keep for yourself.

Fast has its meaning, and slow has its own. Seven notes from one day, from first light to the last page.

A person holding a tree pose on a mountain ridge at sunrise

06:30Note 01

Sunrise, on the ridge

Tea
Green Tea
Vessel
Your own bottle
Form
Powder

Before the day asks for anything: one stick, cold water, two shakes, and the light coming up over the ridge.

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Morning sun through the windows of a wood-paneled train carriage, mountains outside

09:00Note 02

On the road

Tea
Jasmine Green Tea
Vessel
A bottle of water from the station
Form
Powder

Buy a bottle of water on the platform, tip in a stick, shake. The window does the rest.

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A black water bottle standing on a sunlit rock beside a mountain lake

12:30Note 03

Halfway up

Tea
Black Tea
Vessel
Trail bottle
Form
Powder

Sit on a warm rock by the water. Cold black tea, malty, a little honey. Then the second half of the climb.

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15:00Note 04

Today’s note

Tea
Let the day choose
Vessel
Whatever is on your desk
Form
Powder

Give yourself a break. Can’t decide what to drink? Draw a card: one of three teas, and a line to go with it.

Three blue and white porcelain gaiwans on a bamboo table beside a woven bamboo flask

16:30Note 05 · Taste at home

Three cups, with friends

Tea
All three, side by side
Vessel
Three porcelain cups
Form
Powder

Cold water, three cups, a few friends at the table. Taste from light to dark, and keep the one you would go back to.

  1. One stick in each cup of cold water.
  2. Stir for a few seconds.
  3. Taste from light to dark: Jasmine, Green, then Black.
  4. Write down the one you would go back to.
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Evening

A red clay teapot with a round lid against a dark background

19:30Note 06

After dinner, the slow pot

Tea
A roasted oolong from the fall release
Vessel
A red clay teapot
Form
Loose leaf

The table is cleared. Warm the pot, rinse the leaves, and pour small cups for whoever stays.

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An open book beside a lit candle and a stack of old books

22:00Note 07

The last page

Tea
An evening tea, still being chosen
Vessel
A small cup
Form
Loose leaf

One more chapter, one small cup, and the house quiet around you.

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Our gardens

Every tea begins as a place: a slope, a season, a pair of hands.

Each spring and fall we go back to the gardens, taste what the season gave, and bring home only what we would drink ourselves.

Curved rows of tea bushes following the slope of a hillside
Terraced gardens in early spring.Mockup photography

From leaf to cup

How a leaf becomes tea.

Picked, rested and dried in the gardens. For the cold brew sticks, the tea is then brewed and freeze-dried into a powder that dissolves in cold water.

Fresh tea leaves covered in raindrops
01PickingTwo leaves and a bud, early in the season.
Freshly picked tea leaves resting in a round bamboo basket
02WitheringThe leaves rest on bamboo until they soften and smell sweet.
A heap of flat dried green tea leaves
03DryingGentle heat sets the flavor and keeps the leaf until you brew it.
A hand holding up a freshly picked tea shoot, one bud and two leaves, against misty mountains at dusk

The Tea Club

First pick of every season.

Each release is a handful of small batches we taste and choose in the gardens. Quantities are small, and members are first in line.

  • Spring release · AprilThe first green teas of the year.
  • Fall release · OctoberAutumn oolongs and roasted teas.
  • First access to a few small batches each season
  • Tasting notes from the people who chose the teas
  • A live online tasting with every release
  • Member pricing on everything in the shop
  • A tasting set to give a friend, once a year
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The Leafnote journal

Notes on tea, places, and the hours we keep.

A celadon gaiwan and a small cup of tea on a rock at sunset, pine trees behind

Places

Tea on the mountain

A celadon gaiwan on a warm rock at sunset. Why we drink tea where it grows, and what it teaches us about the cup at home.

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A black gaiwan resting on a flat stone in a shallow stream

Places

By the stream

A black gaiwan on a flat stone, cold water running past. A morning spent listening.

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Sunlight falling through a tall bamboo grove onto a stony path

Places

Under the bamboo

Light comes down in strips. On slowing down enough to notice it.

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Late sun shining between tall redwood trunks above a fern-covered forest floor

Places · California

Under the redwoods

Eastern tea, California light. A cup among the tallest trees we know.

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A small stone bridge over a stream below terraced rows of tea

Gardens

The stone bridge

The path into the garden crosses the stream twice. A walk through the terraces before the picking.

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A matte white gaiwan on a linen runner beside bamboo tea tools

Vessels

Choosing a vessel

A gaiwan, a clay pot, or a bottle on the trail: matching the vessel to the moment.

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Gardens

Spring harvest, day by day

A week on the terraces, from the first picking to the last tray.

Tasting

How to taste three teas side by side

A simple way to notice more in every cup.

Tasting

Cold brew, three ways

Still water, sparkling water, and a bottle for the trail.

Vessels

Why a small clay pot

What a red clay teapot asks of you, and what it gives back to the cup.

Day notes

06:30, on the ridge

The first note of the day, written before anyone else was up.

Day notes

Why a card picks the afternoon tea

Today’s note, and the fun of not choosing.

Join us

Share your own leafnote.

A time, a place, a tea, a vessel, and one line about the moment. That is a leafnote. Write yours and pass it on.

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My leafnote 15:00 By the window Green Tea · My own bottle One line about the moment. #myleafnote · leafnotetea.com