Dark Monk Tea — Whole-leaf tea
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Whole-leaf tea · Grand Junction, Colorado

Serious tea.No performance required.

A small collection of whole-leaf teas with enough character to become your regular. Try the lineup, find the one that follows you home, and re-steep it until the leaves are done talking.

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The teas

Six you'll remember by name.

No candy-shop blends, no perfume clouds, no filler. Just six whole-leaf teas, each one its own character — and its own color in the cup.

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Hairy Crab oolongHairy Crab label

Anxi Mao Xie Oolong

Hairy Crab

More floral and rounded than your average Tie Guan Yin, with a soft mineral finish that lingers.

Pale gold from $10
Shadow's Brew black teaShadow's Brew label

Yunnan Black Gold Bi Luo Chun

Shadow's Brew

Hand-rolled black tea — deep malt, soft cocoa, and a faint floral lift underneath it all.

Deep amber from $10
Fate's Flame AssamFate's Flame label

Organic Assam B.O.P.

Fate's Flame

Bold Assam with chocolate malt and enough backbone to stand up to milk without flinching.

Red-brown from $8
Whispering Wraith aged white pu-erhWhispering Wraith label

Aged White Pu-erh

Whispering Wraith

Floral white tea over the earthy depth of aged pu-erh. Unexpected in the way memorable things usually are.

Honey from $7
Midnight Monk oolongMidnight Monk label

Tie Guan Yin Oolong

Midnight Monk

Lightly roasted oolong — floral aroma, soft fruit, and a smooth caramel finish. An easy first loose-leaf.

Golden from $7
Golden Monkey black teaGolden Monkey

Golden Monkey Black TGFOP

Golden Monkey Limited

Smooth Yunnan black with golden tips and a natural sweetness. Drinks beautifully with or without milk.

Amber-gold from $8
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Ways in

Find your way in.

Start with the teas, sit down for a guided tasting, bring the table to your people, or stock Dark Monk in your shop.

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Try

Try the whole lineup

Not sure where to start? Get the sampler and let the teas argue for themselves.

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Tea serviceTea Service

Sit

Join a public tasting

Five seats, one table, and enough short steeps to understand why people get obsessed.

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Private tea eventPrivate Event

Host

Host a private tea table

For team offsites, client events, birthdays, sober gatherings, and people who want something more memorable than another tray of snacks.

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Wholesale teaWholesale Tea

Stock

Wholesale

For cafés, bookstores, tea shops, and small retailers that want a focused tea line with names people remember.

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Public tastings

See the next available seat.

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Small-table Gongfu Tea Service

Five seats · One table · 454 Main St., Grand Junction

Public tastings are small by design: an hour of guided Gongfu tea, side-by-side pours, and actual conversation. Check the current schedule and save a seat.

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Dark Monk tea in the teahouse Founder strip
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Who's behind this

Matt found the tea table and never really left.

Dark Monk is run by Matt Janson, a commercial photographer who found his way into Chinese tea in 2006 and kept coming back. He sources teas worth drinking, gives them names that fit how they feel, and serves them without making anyone perform expertise.

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Tea, occasionally. Spam, never.

New teas, tasting dates, and the occasional steeping opinion you didn't ask for. No fake urgency. No inbox haunting.