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Nepali Gunpowder Green Loose Leaf Green Tea

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An extremely rare and rich "gunpowder" green tea from Ilam in the Nepali Himalayas.

Grown, harvested and expertly crafted by Tinjure Tea Cooperative farmers for the most exquisite flavour, unique to their mountain terroir.

Tasting Notes

A rich green tea - with succulent body and robust tannins. The smooth mouthfeel leads with fruity notes of mango and green apple ending with a subtle hint of nutmeg.

Cost Per Cup

£0.15 per cup based on 2g of tea per 150ml of water and 3 infusions.

Origin

Ilam, Nepal

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🍃 HIGH IMPACT TEA

While all of our teas are the best available from around the world, this tea makes a vital socioeconomic impact on the community that grows and crafts it.

With these high-impact teas, we are shining a light on the people who most need our support.

A prosperous nation like Japan, with a long history and strong domestic market, commands great prices for great tea. Land, labour and expertise are highly valued. Demand for the most famous teas often outstrips supply and buyers compete to get their hands on the best.

For less fortunate economies, where even safe drinking water is not a given, tea is an export. Origins are obscured. Terroirs hidden. If all we are shown is a packet and a brand with no connection to the people and place it comes from, we remain ignorant of its impact.

Many people do not know that much of the tea they drink comes from places like Malawi in East Africa. They are unaware that land, labour and expertise are given little value; that their tea is traded as a commodity by giant multinational agribusinesses, bought for low cost and high quantity over quality; that the farmer has no control of the price. Nor do they know that people in tea communities often do not live beyond their 50s.

It is our business to change that, to establish a value market for their incredible craft and amazing terroirs, much like fine wine.

Recommended Infusion Guide

  • Quantity

    Use 2g of tea per 150ml of water.

  • Temperature

    For the optimum infusion use 80°C water.

  • Time

    Infuse for 1 minute, tasting regularly.

  • Infusions

    You can infuse this tea at least three times. With each careful infusion, different subtleties of flavour are revealed.

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More infusion tips

How to infuse your tea is very personal, and these are just our recommendations based on experience. Please experiment with these variables to your heart's delight. These are our recommendations, not hard and fast rules. The most delicious tea is the one you love.

Our guide uses a standard tea cup size (150ml/5.5 oz) as a measure, please adjust the quantity of leaf accordingly for less or more water. Our whole loose leaves are of such a high quality that you can infuse our teas at least twice, and the second infusion is often better than the first, with different flavours revealed as the leaf softens. If you prefer your tea stronger, add more leaf, don’t leave it for longer (this will just make it bitter).

Ilam, Nepal

The Tinjure Tea Cooperative

This succulent green tea comes from a brilliant group of farmers high in Himalayan mountains of Nepal.

They belong to the Tinjure Tea Cooperative - named after their 3 hills (Tin means “three” and jure means “hills”). The cooperative is made up of farmers from these three hilltop villages (Phakphok, Ekatappa, and Chamaita).

The tea gardens are situated at around 1700-2200 meters above sea level, and all the teas are grown under organic farming principles; the cooperative holds organic certification.

Tinjure was one of the first tea co-ops to be created in Nepal back in 1995. It was founded by 46 locals (2 of whom were women).

Together they accomplished something truly remarkable - they founded their own factory in 2013. Most small holder farmers are reliant on selling their fresh leaf to tea factories, usually owned by vast international corporations who process their leaf into finished tea - and take the lion's share of the value.

Tinjure is unique with the factory and land being owned by the farmers - the management committee is selected by the farmers through an annual general meeting.

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Returns

The Rare Tea Lady believes that our teas are some of the greatest in the world, and that our range and service are second to none.

In the isolated case that you are not completely satisfied with any product you purchase from our website, please get in contact with our customer services team to discuss returning your order.*

In most instances, we will give you a full refund of the item's cost, excluding postage. We may ask you to return the item to us.** Customers in the UK & European Union have statutory rights not affected by this guarantee, but any bags of tea must remained sealed for this to be in effect.

*We only accept returns/refunds for tea within 30 days of receipt, because it is impossible for us to know if the tea has been stored correctly.

**We will endeavour to ask for pictures where possible - but if you have changed your mind and are outside of any statutory rights time period, return postage is payable by you.

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