आबूराज · Aburaj — Blended in Sirohi

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Plate I प्रथम पटल · Title Plate

आबूराज

ABURAJ

est. Sirohi · MCMLXXVIII

A House of Rajasthani Tea since 1978

Sourced from Halmari, Risheehat & Margaret's Hope. Blended at the foot of the Aravalli.

Estate Sirohi · Aravalli

Lineage Seven sources · one blender

Volume VII · Spring

Mount Abu temple courtyard at first light

Plate I · 01

35 mm · Kodachrome

Sirohi · दिलवाड़ा

N 24°35′ E 72°42′

Fig. 01

— silence is the first ingredient —

मौन

✦ Aburaj^® Tea Co. · Tri-Script Ledger ✦

№ 01 · Wordmark

Aburaj^®

आबूराज

— पहाड़ की पत्ती। आबू की रसोई। —

Latin · Devanagari · Bilingual

№ 02 · Provenance

Estate	Sirohi, Rajasthan
Latitude	24°35′ N
Elevation	1,219 m
Soil	Aravalli granite loam
Process	Hand-rolled · sun-fired
Harvest	Spring · Vol. VII

№ 03 · The House Method

i. Warm a bone-china pot with mountain water.
ii. Two pinches per cup, no more.
iii. Pour at 88 °C; never a whistling boil.
iv. Steep four minutes by the brass timer.
v. Drink unsweetened, in a quiet room.

— viz. House Manual, page 14 —

№ 04 · Registry

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№ 0014 / 12,000

✦ ^®Certified single-estate · ^®Whole leaf, never dust · ^®Picked between sunrise and 10 a.m. · ^®Twelve thousand tins per year, no more ✦

✦ Vol. VII · Spring · Plate I.5 ✦

Plate II द्वितीय पटल · The atelier & its country A · B · C

Fig. 02— Jodhpur —

Fig. 03— Atelier still —

Fig. 04— Darjeeling —

The leaf travels two thousand kilometres — from the mist of Darjeeling to the cool air of the Aravalli — before it finds its name. पहाड़ · पवन · पत्ता

अरावली

Plate III · The world of Aburaj

Carved by hand,
blended
by hand.

In the eleventh century, the marble craftsmen of Sirohi spent two hundred years on the Dilwara temples — petal by petal, never the same lotus twice.

Nine centuries later, in the same town: the same patience. Whole-leaf lots from Halmari, Risheehat, and Margaret's Hope arrive by rail from Assam and Darjeeling.

Brass scales. Window light. The blender's nose, taught hand to hand. The leaves are tasted — never the third leaf, never after rain — and a recipe is built one cup at a time.

We work with seven single-estate sources, blend twice a day, and the recipe lives in one mind. Nothing is written down.

Plate III · 04 120 mm सिरोही Aravalli W. slope

The Aravalli ridge at first light — Sirohi, our blending town, sits at its foot.

अरावली · सिरोही · प्रातःकाल

Plate III.5 · The Leaf पत्ता · The brief and the answer

Six leaves छह पत्ते

Six leaves.
One ritual.

छह पत्ते
एक रीति

Every cup of Aburaj is six whole leaves and three minutes of attention. Nothing is broken. Nothing is rushed. The leaf is the brief and the answer.

Cultivar Camellia sinensis var. assamica

Pluck Two leaves & a bud · by hand

Withering Indoor · 14 hours · Sirohi

Steep 3 min · 92 °C · single pour

Fig. 06 *— the brief and the answer —* उत्तर

Plate IV · Interlude अन्तराल

Three windows
onto the house.

A jharokha is a window that looks both ways — out to the courtyard, in to the room. These are ours. झरोखा

No. I

The Fresco

भित्ति-चित्र

— Wall · Mandawa —

No. II

The Vessel

ताम्रपात्र

— Brass · Sirohi —

No. III

The Leaf

पत्ता

— Spring flush · 2026 —

Plate IV · Lineage · वंशावली

A long line of stone, leaf, and hand.

1031

Dilwara

दिलवाड़ा

The white-marble temples raised on Mount Abu — the stone our valley is named for.

1156

Sirohi

सिरोही

The town founded at the foot of the Aravalli — our atelier sits inside its old wall.

1839

Assam

असम

The first commercial Camellia sinensis grown on Indian soil.

1856

Darjeeling

दार्जिलिंग

The first hill-grown leaf — proof that altitude makes the cup.

1978

Aburaj

आबूराज

Hari Om Industries founded in Sheoganj, Sirohi — Aburaj begins as a single hand-blended tea.

We are the most recent name on a very old list. परम्परा

Plate V · Stockists पंचम पटल · By appointment

We don't ship. We're stocked.

Aburaj is blended in Sirohi and stocked across eight cities, in trusted kirana shops and premium grocers. Find your nearest stockist — or call us.

Sirohi

सिरोही

Atelier · home

Mount Abu

माउंट आबू

12 stockists

Udaipur

उदयपुर

28 stockists

Jodhpur

जोधपुर

34 stockists

Jaipur

जयपुर

52 stockists

Ahmedabad

अहमदाबाद

46 stockists

Mumbai

मुम्बई

63 stockists

Delhi

दिल्ली

78 stockists

+91 7232 060 060 Customer care · 10am–7pm See full stockist list →

ABU·RAJ

Tea, named for a hill — Abu Raj.

Carved by hand,
blended
by hand.

Marble, carved into mythology.

Six leaves.
One ritual.

Three windows
onto the house.

A long line of stone, leaf, and hand.

We don't ship. We're stocked.

— silence is the first ingredient.

Tea, named for a hill — Abu Raj.

Carved by hand,blendedby hand.

Marble, carved into mythology.

Six leaves. One ritual.

A long line of stone, leaf, and hand.

We don't ship. We're stocked.

— silence is the first ingredient.

Carved by hand,
blended
by hand.

Six leaves.
One ritual.