Rare purple tea from Kenya's highlands.
Purple T is our retail tea brand — a single-cultivar purple tea grown above two thousand metres in the Kenyan highlands. A pale liquor that turns rose when you add citrus, because the colour is the compound and the compound is the point.
Sold direct to tea drinkers through the Purple T shop. For trade volumes, see wholesale.
Why the leaf is different.
Anthocyanins
The pigment that gives the leaf its colour — present at levels no green tea or matcha can match.
Colour-change
Add lemon and the liquor blooms from violet to rose. The colour is the compound at work.
Single cultivar
One cultivar, one hillside, one cohort — grown at altitude in the Kenyan highlands.