Release 001 · Steeping

Ceremonial Teas — Release 001

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Whole-leaf teas for the slow way of drinking: a small pot, short steeps, ten rounds and counting.

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The House

CHIFIR is a ritual tea house. We take the teas of the gongfu tradition — ripe pu-erh, white tea, and whatever we fall for next — and release them in small, considered editions. No powders posing as medicine, no incense-shop mysticism. Leaf, water, heat, time.

Release 001
Stuffed Teas

Release 001 — Stuffed Teas

Whole leaves rested inside sun-dried green tangerine peel until each takes on the other’s character. Seven pieces to a box; one piece is a full session.

The black box — Tangerine Pu-erh Tea carton on dark stone, a cluster of leaf-stuffed tangerines beside it under a slant of light.

Tangerine Pu-erh Tea

Xiǎo Qīng Gān · 小青柑
Dried citrus · Cacao · Walnut · Aged wood · Dark honey
$25
The pale box — Tangerine White Tea carton on pale stone, a cluster of leaf-stuffed tangerines beside it under a slant of light.

Tangerine White Tea

Bái Chá Xiǎo Qīng Gān · 白茶小青柑
Orange Blossom · Honey · White Flowers · Soft Citrus
$25
The Pair
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The State

What drinkers call tea drunk.

Long gongfu sessions have a reputation. Somewhere past the fifth steep, people describe a feeling with its own name — tea drunk: warm, clear-headed, unhurried. Tea naturally carries caffeine and L-theanine. Ceremony carries its own weight. We make no promises; effects vary by person, by tea, by afternoon.† The honest way to find out is to sit down and steep.

† A description of what tea people report, not a health claim.
The Process

From orchard to cup in six movements.

Peel is hollowed by hand, filled with leaf, dried in open sun, then left alone to become one thing.

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The Ritual

Never brewed gongfu? You need less than you think: a small pot or a thermos, water off the boil, a free half hour.

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