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Nepal Tea
Silver Needle White Tea, Hand-Plucked
Buds only · sun-withered · 100 g
$72.00
per 100 g tin
Unopened buds only, withered in shade and sun and then barely touched. The least processed tea we sell and the most expensive per gram, for the obvious reason.
Despatched in 1–2 working days from Kathmandu on stock lines, tracked the whole way.
30-day retail returns on anything unused and unopened. Faulty or wrongly described, we cover the freight.
Declared at its real value. We do not under-declare and we do not mark commercial goods as gifts.
Handwork varies. Tool marks, grain and small colour shifts are characteristics, not faults.
Buying this at volume
- MOQ
- 10 kg
- Packing
- 12 tins per master carton
- Lead time
- Seasonal — spring lot only
- Incoterm
- FOB Kathmandu quoted by default; CIF and DAP on request
Wholesale pricing is quoted against your destination and volume, not published. Send one enquiry covering everything you want and we come back with unit prices, freight options and the certificate list for your market.
Request a quote for this| Material | Camellia sinensis, unopened buds |
|---|---|
| Technique | Withered and dried, no rolling |
| Dimensions | 100 g lined tin |
| Weight | 0.3 kg gross |
| Unit | 100 g tin |
| Made in | Ilam district, Koshi Province |
| Producer | Single-garden lot, ~1,900 m |
| Item code | AEX-TEA-103 |
| HS code | 0902.10 Indicative. Final classification is decided by the customs authority at the port of entry — give this to your broker as a starting point, not as a ruling. |
About this product
White tea is defined by what is not done to it. There is no rolling and no deliberate oxidation — the leaf is withered, dried and left alone. That makes the raw material the whole story, and the raw material here is buds only, plucked by hand in a window of a few days.
The liquor is very pale and easy to under-brew. Use water off the boil at about 80 °C, three minutes, and expect something closer to melon and hay than to tea as most people know it.
A hundred grams is a lot of tea at this leaf-to-weight ratio. It will outlast a black tea of the same weight by a wide margin.
How it was made
Withered and dried, no rolling — Ilam district, Koshi Province.
Sourced from Single-garden lot, ~1,900 m.
Nepal Tea — Ilam & Dhankuta. See the rest of this category.
Producer descriptions on this site are sourcing categories rather than named suppliers. Named-supplier disclosure is available to trade buyers under NDA — ask when you request a quote.
Care & keeping
Airtight and cool. Improves slightly for the first year, then holds.
Shipping, duty & returns
Retail orders leave Kathmandu within two working days of payment clearing and are tracked throughout. Free over $150.00; a flat $24.00 below that.
Import duty and tax in your own country are not included and are payable by you. We declare goods at their real value.
Thirty days to return anything unused and in its original packaging. Food, tea, spices, honey and cosmetics are not returnable once opened, which is a food-safety position rather than a commercial one.
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