Rare teas · Sri Lanka · Nepal · India · China
A Journey Through Tea
A journey across Sri Lanka, Nepal, India and China, in search of the world’s rarest and most exceptional teas.
The house
A house of rare teas
From remote tea gardens to centuries-old traditions, each journey reveals a new origin, a new story, and a new expression of tea.
Adisayam travels to the gardens themselves. We walk the slopes, meet the people who grow and craft the leaf, and taste each tea where it is made. Only the teas that stop us will carry our name.
The leaf, in ten plates
From seed to cup
The seed
Every tea begins as one plant, Camellia sinensis.
The leaf
Soil, altitude and weather are written into it.
The craft
Withered, rolled and dried, the leaf keeps its shape.
The root
A tea bush can stay in the same ground for generations.
The pluck
Two leaves and a bud, taken by hand.
The eye
We look closely before we choose.
The infusion
In water, the leaf opens again.
The families
White, green, black: one plant, different hands.
The liquor
Pale gold to deep amber, side by side.
The table
Where the journey ends, and is shared.
Four countries, one search
Origins
Sri Lanka
The island of Ceylon tea, where gardens climb from the southern lowlands to the mist of the central highlands. Our journey starts here.
Nepal
Young Himalayan gardens at high altitude, still little known beyond the mountains that shelter them.
India
Darjeeling, Assam, the Nilgiris. Three landscapes, and three very different characters of tea.
China
The birthplace of tea, and of nearly every way of crafting the leaf that the world has since learned.
Origin
A tea that comes from one place, and tastes of it.
Craft
Leaf picked and worked by people who have done it all their lives.
Rarity
Small lots, made in season, that will not come again the same way.
Coming soon
The journey begins
The project is taking shape, and our first teas are still on the road. We invite you to stay connected as the journey unfolds.
The journey begins.Satya
ContactSatyaadisayam@gmail.com+33 6 95 25 06 58
Questions
- What is Adisayam?
- Adisayam is a house of rare teas, built on journeys to the gardens of Sri Lanka, Nepal, India and China.
- Where do the teas come from?
- From four countries: Sri Lanka, Nepal, India and China. Each tea is chosen on site, in the garden where it is made.
- Can I buy Adisayam teas?
- Not yet. The first selection will be announced on Instagram, at @adisayam.co.