Singpho Bamboo-Smoked Tea · Assam, India

Born in Fire.
The Original Tea of India.

Hand-plucked, packed in wild bamboo, and smoked over open flames. Discover the Mezcal of Tea.

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Not a bag. Not loose leaf.
A solid artifact of smoke and flavor.

Wild leaves rammed into green bamboo, fired for days, and aged into a dense log. Slice it like fine salami, one coin at a time.

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Three notes. One fire.

Earth

Deep, grounded notes of the Assam jungle: wet bark, forest floor, and wild honey.

Smoke

Rich campfire aromas drawn from days of roasting inside green bamboo over open flames.

Malt

The bold, natural sweetness of indigenous wild tea leaves: round, robust, never bitter.

Two thousand years of Singpho craft. In 2024, phalap earned India’s Geographical Indication tag: a protected name, like Champagne or Darjeeling.

Protected origin · Upper Assam, India

Two Centuries Before Your Teabag

Before the British, there were the Singpho.

In 1823, a Singpho chief handed the East India Company its first Assam tea leaves. The tribe had already been drinking phalap for centuries.

Read the Heritage

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The fire is lit.

PHALAP is in development. Join the waitlist and be first to hold the log when the first batch leaves the smokehouse.