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Est. MMXIX · Tea-crafted spirits · Small-batch

Spirits, made of
tea & mountains

Every spirit we make revolves around a single leaf — a tea grown high on a mountain we've walked — and is distilled where the leaf was grown. The few botanicals that join the leaf are there only to supplement it. We keep the list short.

See Our CreationsThe Mountains
Our Mission

A spirit should
taste of where it came from.
One mountain. One leaf. One season.

— Jeffrey Su, Founder
The Leaf Comes First

Tea is the beginning,
not the garnish.

Most distillers treat tea as a flourish — a late addition, a finishing note. We do it the other way around. Each of our spirits revolves around the leaf, and the only botanicals that join it are the few that supplement what the tea is already doing. We keep the recipe simple on purpose.

Purple Bud asks for orris root and sweet orange. A jasmine tea invites apricot and juniper. The tea decides. We listen.

Purple Bud tea leaves — close up
Explore

Three ways
into the house.

Meet the mountains that give us our tea, the creations we build from them, and the artists who dress each bottle we make.

Alishan — ridge above the cloud sea
I.

The Mountains

Our tea is never from a supermarket. It's from a hill we can name, a family we can call.

Walk the mountains
Alishan Cloud Gin bottle
II.

Our Creations

A tea-crafted gin built around Purple Bud — our first bottle, with more to follow as the teas we trust come in.

See the range
Watercolour study of Alishan
III.

Our Artists

Every label is a commissioned work. Painters, printmakers, and calligraphers from each tea region.

Meet the artists
Our Drinks

Pour it like
we like it.

A few of the ways we serve the bottle. Hover a card to watch the pour, or open the full showcase.

See every drink