6,800 ft · West Bengal
Kanchan View, Darjeeling
North-facing slopes above Kurseong where the mist does half the withering for us. Muscatel country.
Single-estate · Est. Siliguri 1978
The garden, still warm in the tin.
PEKOE buys whole invoices from three family gardens in Darjeeling, Assam and the Nilgiris — then airlifts, tins and ships them before the aroma has anywhere to go.
0Estate valleys
0 ftHighest garden
0 hrsLeaf to tin
0Micro-lots a season
Three valleys, one label
We don’t blend regions.
We introduce them.
Every tin carries one garden, one pluck, one week. Meet the three families whose entire invoices we buy before the leaves are even fired.
280 ft · Upper Assam
Rani Doyang, Golaghat
Low, hot and loud with malt. The Brahmaputra’s humidity gives our Assams their famous swagger.
6,100 ft · Tamil Nadu
Frost Hollow, Coonoor
Winter frost stresses the bushes into sweetness. Our January pickings taste like the Nilgiris smell.
The collection
Eight tins. Zero flavouring.
Whole-leaf invoices, numbered by pluck week. Every price below is for a resealable 50 g tin — roughly 25 honest cups.
Signature system 01
The Steep Lab — brew it to the second.
Pick a tin. We set the water, the clock and the leaf dose. Press start and watch the cup deepen to exactly the colour it should be when you pour.
85°CWater
3:00 minSteep
2.5 gPer 200 ml
First flush is a whisper — never add milk, and pour the moment the bell rings.
3:00
Ready when you are
Water first, leaves second, patience third.
Signature system 02
Read a tea before you taste it.
Five axes, one honest shape. Switch between tins and watch the profile morph — malt swings east, florals swing north.
Kanchan First Flush — Darjeeling
White blossom, green almond and that thin mountain-air brightness only a March pluck carries.
Leaf to tin
Seventy-two hours, six hands-on steps.
Withering troughs, hour 14 of 16 — moisture down to 68%
01
Pluck Hour 0
Two leaves and a bud, before 9 am, while the dew still slows oxidation. Nothing mechanical ever touches the bush.
02
Wither Hours 2–18
Leaf loses a third of its water on mesh troughs. The garden decides the hours; we just keep the fans honest.
03
Roll Hour 18
Old Britannia rollers bruise the leaf just enough to wake the juices. Twenty-two minutes, never more.
04
Oxidise Hours 19–22
Spread thin on cool slabs. The leaf turns from grass to bronze — the tea-maker smells, not times, the finish.
05
Fire Hour 22
Four minutes at 115°C locks the character. This is the moment we buy — our agent stands at the dryer mouth.
06
Tin & fly Hour 72
Nitrogen-flushed tins, sealed at the estate, on the Bagdogra or Dibrugarh flight the same week. No warehouse. Ever.
“A tea garden is not a farm. It is a kitchen the size of a valley, and the monsoon is head chef.”Dorje Bhutia — Estate manager, Kanchan View
Signature system 03
The Pekoe Post — a box that learns your cup.
Answer three questions. We match tins to your palate, your kettle and your hour of the day — then post them fresh every month.
Step 1 of 4 · Box size
How much tea does your month hold?
Step 2 of 4 · Your hour
When does the kettle usually go on?
Step 3 of 4 · Milk
Milk in your cup?
Step 4 of 4 · Character
Pick the cup you keep coming back to.
Your box, matched
The Dawn Ritual box
Every month, free shipping
₹1,099/mo
Fresh-season priority
Subscribers get first-flush and frost-tea lots two weeks before the shop does.
Pause from WhatsApp
Travelling? One message pauses, skips or swaps your box. No app, no login.
Steep cards inside
Each tin ships with its Steep Lab card — water, clock and dose for that exact lot.
From the gardens
Postcards between plucking rounds.
Steeped & said
What the kettles of India report back.
“I timed the Rani Doyang with their Steep Lab and finally understood what ‘malty’ meant. My office chai wallah has been put on notice.”
AR
Ananya RaghunathanIndiranagar, Bengaluru
“The subscription quiz nailed it — Moonlight White for my late evenings, chai for Sunday mornings. It genuinely feels curated, not shipped.”
VS
Vikram SethiAlipore, Kolkata
“Ordered on WhatsApp at 9 pm, tin numbered DJ-2026-14 at my Gurugram door in two days. The muscatel smelt like the tin was still in Kurseong.”
MK
Meher KaurSector 56, Gurugram
The tasting room
Come sip the whole map.
Twelve teas on the bench daily, brewed on the Steep Lab clocks. Walk-ins welcome; gongfu flights by appointment.
PEKOE Tasting Room
12A Ballygunge Place, Kolkata 700019
3 min from Ballygunge Phari crossing
Hours
| Tuesday – Friday | 10:00 – 20:00 |
| Saturday – Sunday | 09:00 – 21:00 |
| Monday | Closed — we’re cupping new lots |
Orders & gongfu bookings
+91 86691 17894 — WhatsApp first, we brew faster than we type.