Verdant Tea

Sample our most popular teas with this special tasting kit for first time customers. Each box ships with five 5g samples of tea, plus a bonus $5 coupon code to use on your next order.

PACKED & CURATED by our farmer partners. Each month, our Tea of the Month Club box is hosted by one of our partner farmers, from the He Family in Laoshan Village to the Dongsa Farmer’s Cooperative in Yunnan. The farmers will pick out a selection of their freshest, most interesting teas, the ones that they are most excited for you to try. Many of their selections will be from limited batches and experimental runs not made in enough quantity to sell on our website. 

Shopping for someone else but not sure what to give them? Give them the gift of choice with a Verdant Tea gift card. Tea lovers can use the Verdant Tea Gift Card to purchase loose leaf tea, teaware, bulk Tea Club subscriptions, and more! Gift cards are delivered by email and contain instructions to redeem them at checkout. Our gift cards have no additional processing fees.

This tea set is everything you need to brew fine tea at home, or to kickstart friends and family in gongfu tea brewing. This essentials collection includes a white porcelain gaiwan that is fully non-reactive for true clean flavor and aroma. The cups are high fired porcelain from Qing Yuan Peng Hua studio in Dehua. The tempered glass pitcher and stainless steel strainer make it easy to brew for a group.

This brilliantly-assembled essential gongfu set is everything you need to make the time and space for fine tea, wherever you may be. The set includes a fine lustrous porcelain gaiwan, edged with a warm natural band for contrast, three matching cups with just the right flare to bring out the aromatics of tea, a tempered glass pitcher to show off the color of the finished brew, a tea towel that doubles as a runner for a formal gongfu set up, and a plastic case to dump extra tea whose lid doubles as a tea boat for your gaiwan. Everything packs into a hard case zip carrier that takes up less space than a single folded T-shirt. The perfect essential gongfu solution.

This is Xiangfu’s absolute smallest gongfu travel kit. This simple kit includes a gaiwan with removable strainer and three cups that stack and nest in the gaiwan, all bundled together in a padded green drawstring bag. It’s everything you need to enjoy your favorite tea with the smallest footprint possible, and a great intro to gongfu-style brewing for anyone looking to dive in and get the most out of their tea.

This stunning, vibrant tea set includes a gaiwan and four tasting cups, all meticulously hand-thrown, carefully air-dried, carved down exquisitely thin, high-fired, glazed and re-fired for an exquisite, fully non-reactive tea set ready for professional tasting. The whole set comes in a travel case so you can take your gallery-level Jingdezhen porcelain on the go!

Xiangfu delivers full-on gongfu brewing in the smallest, most portable form factor with this new set. Three cups nest inside a stylish glass and bamboo brewer with a removable porcelain strainer and top. You can control brew time by removing the strainer, and pour from the pitcher into each cup for multi-infusion gongfu. When you are done, pack it up in the durable carbon-fiber case and take it on the go.

This stunning, vibrant tea set includes a gaiwan and four tasting cups, all meticulously hand-thrown, carefully air-dried, carved down exquisitely thin, high-fired, glazed and re-fired for an exquisite, fully non-reactive tea set ready for professional tasting. The whole set comes in a travel case so you can take your gallery-level Jingdezhen porcelain on the go!

Xiangfu delivers full-on gongfu brewing in the smallest most portable form factor with this new set. Three stylish blue and white porcelain cups nest inside a glass and bamboo brewer with a matching removable porcelain strainer and top. You can control brew time by removing the strainer, and pour from the pitcher into each cup for multi-infusion gongfu. When you are done, pack it up in the durable carbon-fiber case and take it on the go.

This trio of tea animals makes for a perfectly festive tea board, giving you lifelong gongfu tea companions. While most tea animals are machine-made, Yixing artist Zhao Yonghui insists on sourcing high quality clay and carefully hand-sculpting each piece to give them personality. Pouring tea of the tea animals helps them build up a beautiful patina over time. This set shows off the playful dynamic energy that Zhao Yonghui put’s into his work, one that keeps rewarding you for years to come.

Jingdezhen is the ultimate in professional-level tea tasting. This high-fired porcelain is unparalleled, and used at the competition level for the way it shows a tea's truest “highest resolution” flavor, texture and aroma. We are lucky to work with the talented Yong Jing Tang Workshop, where they hand-throw every Jingdezhen piece for perfect precision and hand paint each beautiful adornment. The result is a level of teaware that is hard to even capture in photos, pieces that glow in the light and are a true pleasure to hold and sip from. This set features a hand painted gaiwan, two hand-painted cups and a hand-painted pitcher for an elegant tea set ready to show off the finest teas.

This tea set is inspired by the professional tea setups used at fine teahouses in Xiamen, one of the biggest cultural centers for oolong tea in the world, and central to all of Fujian’s abundant tea- from Tieguanyin to white tea and Big Red Robe. A high-fired, hand-painted porcelain gaiwan brings out deep and true aromatics in your tea, while aroma cups allow you to enjoy those aromatics to the fullest. A beautiful, carved, hardwood draining tea board is there to catch any drips or rinses during long tea sessions, and provides a beautiful contrast with the glowing and nearly translucent porcelain.

This full gongfu tea set features a gaiwan, pitcher, and sic cups all showing off the implements of an ancient scholar’s studio, complete with tea tools and natural objects of contemplation. The scenes are a reminder of tea culture’s long–spanning history and the roots of modern gongfu. The red-orange accents show off the lovely bright-white porcelain, perfect for amplifying the color and aromatics of your tea.

This set draws on the Song Dynasty celadon tradition, featuring an elegant ewer whose role in tea ceremony is to cool your water before pouring over delicate green teas and white teas, along with a uniquely carved celadon gaiwan, a tea boat based on a famous Song Dynasty celadon motif, and a scalloped cup large enough for solo-brewing. Traditional high-fired Longquan kiln celadon is fully-vitrified, non-reactive and perfect for amplifying the aromatics and texture of your tea. Embrace the beautiful jade celadon inspired by the Song Dynasty pottery tradition!

Tall, bold, angular and geometric, this celadon set features a hand-finished gaiwan, two tall cups that could easily double as aroma cups, and a hexagonal celadon pitcher. Traditional high-fired Longquan kiln celadon is fully-vitrified, non-reactive and perfect for amplifying the aromatics and texture of your tea. Embrace the beautiful jade celadon inspired by the Song Dynasty pottery tradition!

Tall, bold, angular and geometric, this celadon set features a hand-finished gaiwan, two tall cups that could easily double as aroma cups, and a hexagonal celadon pitcher. Traditional high-fired Longquan kiln celadon is fully-vitrified, non-reactive and perfect for amplifying the aromatics and texture of your tea. Embrace the beautiful jade celadon inspired by the Song Dynasty pottery tradition!

This beautiful hand-finished celadon tea set is a celebration of the abundance of nature featuring two flower-adorned tea goblets, a gaiwan with peonies in relief, and an elegant, modern hexagonal celadon pitcher. Traditional high-fired Longquan kiln celadon is fully-vitrified, non-reactive and perfect for amplifying the aromatics and texture of your tea. Embrace the beautiful jade celadon inspired by the Song Dynasty pottery tradition!