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A Shan tea tree on the slope at dawn, mist filling the valley and stilt houses below.

Ancient Shan Tuyết tea

Ancient mountain tea, shaped by nature and time.

Shan Mộc returns to the original taste of Shan Tuyết — ancient tea trees grown among high mountains, cold mist, and time.

Hà Giang · The ferment of time

Tea trees, people who keep the mountain, harvests that pass through years.

A line of record from Hà Giang: Chu Hạ, Nậm Siệu, Hoàng Su Phì — when the house has real photographs and files. This is a frame for the story, not a fully verified gazetteer.

Philosophy

Shan Mộc returns to the original taste of Shan Tuyết — ancient tea trees grown among high mountains, cold mist, and time.

We work with ancient Shan Tuyết trees in Vietnam’s northern highlands. Little intervention. The leaf kept honest. Mountain, mist and time speak first.

Illustration: ancient Shan tea trunk.
Illustration: misted northern Vietnamese mountains.

Origin

Clouded slopes of Hà Giang, Yên Bái, Sơn La.

The trees live around 1,000–2,000 metres. Buds wear white down. Hmong, Dao and Tày hands pick them. This is not lowland plantation tea, and not a blend.

Collection

Tea by mountain, by season.

White Tea

Ancient Snow Buds

Hà Giang, Vietnam · About 1,000–2,000 m

White flower, cold mist, a clear sweet finish.

From₫890,000

  • 50 g kraft pouch
  • 100 g kraft pouch
  • 200 g tin

Green Tea

Tây Côn Lĩnh Green

Hà Giang, Vietnam · 1,300–1,600 m

Bean, orchid, roasted sweetness.

From₫780,000

  • 50 g kraft pouch
  • 100 g kraft pouch
  • 200 g tin

Black Tea

Hoàng Su Phì Black

Hà Giang, Vietnam · 1,200–1,500 m

Forest honey, wet wood, longan.

From₫720,000

  • 50 g kraft pouch
  • 100 g kraft pouch
  • 200 g tin

Shan Bancha

Shan Bancha

Yên Bái, Vietnam · 1,200–1,400 m

Straw, grain, unadorned warmth.

From₫280,000

  • 50 g kraft pouch
  • 100 g kraft pouch
  • 200 g tin

Experimental & Fermented Tea

Raw Pu-erh

Hà Giang, Vietnam

Raw, lightly bitter, Shan leaf.

From₫550,000

  • Retail pack

Why Shan Mộc

A cup you can trace — to the tree, and to the hands that made it.

  • Ancient Shan Tuyết, high mountains

    Buds from ancient tea trees growing among the high peaks and cold mist of northern Vietnam.

  • A sheet for every lot

    Mountain, village, altitude, harvest and method are written on every tea’s page.

  • Handmade, in small batches

    Handmade processing and hand-sorting; small lots kept apart by garden and picking day.

  • Easy to order, safe to receive

    Orders confirmed within 24 hours · cash on delivery · free shipping from 500,000 ₫ · 7-day exchange for house faults.

  • Confirmed within 24 hours
  • Cash on delivery (COD)
  • 2–5 days · free from 500,000 ₫

From leaf to tea

Ten steps. None skipped.

  1. misted northern Vietnamese mountains.

    01

    Mountain

    Shan Tuyết lives around 1,000–2,000 metres, in cold mist for much of the year. Soil, wind, limestone and cloud shape the tea before any hand does.

  2. ancient Shan Tuyết trunk.

    02

    Ancient tea tree

    Ancient Shan trees stand for many years on the mountain. Thick trunks, deep roots. Young buds wear a white down like frost — hence the name.

  3. picking tea buds on the mountain.

    03

    Harvest

    Hand-picked to each tea’s standard. White: a single bud. Green: one bud and two leaves. No machines, no stripping of branches.

  4. tea leaves withering on bamboo.

    04

    Withering

    Leaves are spread thin on bamboo trays and wither in mountain air. Water leaves slowly; aroma opens with it.

  5. rolling tea by hand.

    05

    Processing

    Fired, rolled, or left still — according to the tea. Shan Mộc intervenes only enough to keep the leaf honest.

  6. tea leaves oxidising.

    06

    Oxidation / fermentation

    Black teas oxidise fully. Yellow teas rest. White and green barely oxidise. Each lot is tasted while it is being made.

  7. drying tea over a low fire.

    07

    Drying

    Slow drying to a stable moisture. Aroma is not scorched. Fire is a tool, not a flavour.

  8. hand-sorting dry tea.

    08

    Sorting

    Stems lifted out, leaves sorted by hand. Small lots stay separate by garden and pick date.

  9. tasting tea in the workshop.

    09

    Tasting

    Each lot is tasted across infusions — aroma, flavour, liquor, finish. What does not hold is not catalogued.

  10. tea-maker’s hands over a bamboo tray.

    10

    Quality control

    Moisture, sensory checks and packing, under a food safety system being built to ISO 22000:2018.

What we hold

  • Mountain

    Taste begins in soil, cloud and altitude. We do not correct the mountain with flavouring.

  • Purity

    Little intervention. No flavouring, no colouring, no blending to make up weight.

  • Craft

    Hand pick, fire, roll, dry — the maker tastes while working.

  • Time

    Old tea trees. A slow wither. Unhurried drying. Made with the mountain season, not forced for volume.

  • Traceability

    When the house has it, a lot notes the garden and the method. Ask — we answer from the records we hold.

  • Respect

    Old trees, the people who keep them, and the drinker — none of them are props.

Partnership

Tea partnerships rooted in origin.

For specialist tea shops, brands, distributors, hotels, restaurants and importers. OEM and private label when the standard is shared.

Illustration: highland village and tea trees.

Journal

Slow notes.