First Flush Green
4.9 · 204Hand-plucked April leaf from 2,100 m. Bright, grassy, no bitterness.
Format
€24.00
100 g tin · in stock
1
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The green tea line
Leaf from the same hillside
Two teas, six formats. One picked in the first ten days of April at 2,100 metres, one rolled by hand from the autumn flush at 1,850. No blending, no flavouring, no leaf from anywhere else.
- 2
- Teas
- 2,100 m
- Top plot
- 3
- Infusions each
- Character
- Grassy, sweet, no bite
- Harvest
- 6–16 April 2026
- Altitude
- 2,100 m
Mustang Gunpowder
4.7 · 141Rolled pellet green tea, slow-dried. Deep, mineral, forgiving.
Format
€12.00
50 g tin · in stock
1
- Character
- Mineral, deep, forgiving
- Harvest
- Autumn 2025
- Altitude
- 1,850 m
How to brew both
Weigh the leaf if you can. If you cannot: a heaped teaspoon per cup, and take the kettle off before it roars.
| Tea | Leaf | Water | Time | Then |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Flush Green | 4 g / 300 ml | 75 °C | 90 s | Two more infusions, +30 s each |
| First Flush, cold | 6 g / 1 l | Fridge | 8 h | Drink within a day |
| Mustang Gunpowder | 5 g / 300 ml | 85 °C | 2 min | Three infusions, it holds up |
| Gunpowder, camp pot | A handful | Off the boil | 3 min | Forgives everything |
Cold nights make slow leaf, and slow leaf is sweeter
At 2,100 metres the bush grows about a third as fast as it would in the lowlands. Less growth means more amino acid in the bud and less of the tannin that turns a cup bitter when your water is too hot.
It also means the flush is small, late and impossible to schedule. In 2026 it came ten days behind, which is why the tin says lot 04 and not April.
Harvest notes in the journal