Soil & Stone Core tea

Chinese tea · provincial terroir

Terroir 'core sample' — soil strata

A terroir 'core sample' — soil strata. The same setup for every tea in the catalogue, so the difference you see is the tea.

A teamotea tin photographed in a provincial-terroir setting: a terroir 'core sample' — soil strata

The catalogue, category by category

34 teas · 7 categories

What stays fixed, and what changes

Every one of the 34 teas is photographed the same way in this shop: a terroir 'core sample' — soil strata. The frame keeps parent stone, minerals — beside the tin. What changes between teas is the tea, not the treatment — the tin itself carries the difference. The set was built to work as connoisseur terroir; 'taste the ground'. Nothing in these frames is a stock photograph: the tin is our own 100 g tin, printed with our own labels, and the tea inside it is the tea being sold. One visual language across a whole catalogue is harder than one striking image, and it is the part that makes a shelf look like a brand.