Kyela Teas

Kevin Gascoyne, tea-taster and founder of Kyela Teas. Photo: Christinne Muschi for the National Post

Kyela Teas is a small company specializing in Darjeeling tea.

We import a wide selection of all grades of Darjeeling Teas fresh from the tea gardens directly to the client.

For more information on bulk purchases, Fair Trade teas and organic teas, contact us at kyelateas@darjeelingtea.net.

The Kyela Teas Catalogue of Darjeeling Teas

The Kyela Teas Catalogue contains our best teas of the year. We closely follow the Darjeeling growing season opening each year in the Spring as the First Flush teas start to arrive and close as the teas sell out before the following First Flush.

This unconventional sales period ensures fresh leaf is sold in its prime and avoids carrying stock into the next growing year. Teas that are sold at the end the year still have a good six months before they begin to lose their character to age.

The teas in this catalogue are all of premium whole leaf grades and are grown on the high altitude slopes of the District of Darjeeling in the Indian Himalayas.

Read the Darjeeling First Flush Report for 2004 by Kyela Teas taster Kevin Gascoyne

Featured Teas

Rare and Exotic Darjeelings-The Perfect Gift for Tea Drinkers
To send some of Kyela Teas' fine Darjeelings to friends or family simply enter their information into the Shipping Address section of the KyelaTeas.com order form. Include a personal greeting for them of 20 words or less in the comments box. We will gift-wrap the teas and send your greeting in a card (no extra charge)./p>

Samabeong's DJ02 First Flush 2001 in the withering trough.

Darjeeling Tea

"The District of Darjeeling, high in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas, produces the most sophisticated and fragrant black teas that the world has to offer. Collectively the 87 "tea-gardens"in this tiny region create the tea equivalent of an appellation of French wine. The sub-tropical, high altitude conditions are at the very extremity of the tea plant's tolerance. As with other plants that excel when pushed to their limits such as coffee, olives and grapes, hardship increases the chemical compounds reponsible for the leaves' aromatic qualities. For 150 years Darjeeling has held its worldwide reputation as the "champagne of black teas" intently focussed on the very labour-intensive, perfection of taste. At auction the First and Second Flush Darjeeling teas fetch the elevated prices that support the region's industry for the whole year."

Kevin Gascoyne, "Eat" Magazine, Tokyo 2001.