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The Darjeeling Cup

Darjeeling soul in Berlin
Small-batch teas, rich heritage, and a mission to share the stories behind every leaf. 🍃

23/07/2026

Unpopular opinion: loose leaf isn’t automatically better than a tea bag. I say this as someone whose entire business is loose leaf.
The real enemy is never the bag shape, it’s what’s inside it.
A lot of loose leaf sold in supermarkets is broken, low-grade leaf that didn’t make the cut for anything better, dressed up loose in a tin to look premium.
Meanwhile a well-made pyramid bag, filled with whole or lightly broken leaf and given enough room to actually unfurl, can out-brew plenty of “premium” loose leaf that’s really just fannings with a nicer label.
What actually determines quality has almost nothing to do with format: leaf grade, how it was processed, how fresh it is, and whether the water has room to move through it properly. A tea bag that respects all four of those will beat loose leaf that ignores all four, every time.
None of this is an argument against loose leaf, it’s an argument against assuming the format does the work the leaf itself should be doing.

Judge the leaf, not the packaging it came in.

Change my mind. 👇

23/07/2026

Unpopular opinion: a higher price tag on your tea usually doesn’t mean the person who grew it saw more of that money.
The part nobody puts on the label is that most tea, however it’s priced on the shelf, passes through an auction house or a broker before it ever reaches a brand.
The price you pay covers branding, packaging, retail markup, and everyone’s margin along that chain, the grower’s cut was usually fixed long before the final price was ever decided. A €25 tin and a €8 tin can trace back to farmers earning nearly the same amount, or the cheaper tin can actually pay better, depending entirely on who’s between you and the garden.
The only pricing model where “more expensive” reliably means “the farmer earned more” is direct trade, where a brand buys straight from the maker, at a price they actually agreed on together, with no auction house or anonymous broker taking a cut in between. That’s not a marketing detail. That’s the entire difference.
So next time a price feels like it should mean something ethically, it’s worth asking the very unglamorous question: paid to whom, exactly? Not every expensive tea has an answer.

Ours does, I can tell you the name of the person who picked it.
Tell me if I’m wrong. 👇

21/07/2026

We’re hosting something new next month, and it has been a while since I felt this excited about an afternoon. Maroua will guide us through a gentle Pilates flow outdoors, surrounded by nature, no experience needed, just yourself and a mat. Once we’re settled back into our bodies, I’ll sit down with you for a tea tasting through spring and summer Himalayan harvests, side by side, with the stories of the farmers and makers behind each cup.

Spaces are limited, and the link is in my bio if you’d like to join us. ♥️

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