This Vault follows the arc of Autumn and the Metal element: the season of refinement, separating the essential from the excess. Ten teas selected from well over a hundred, each already carrying years to decades of transformation in bamboo baskets, clay jars, and humid storerooms. Some come from documented mountains and famous recipes; others arrived with no wrapper or factory name, known only by the leaf itself. Both ask the same thing of you: patience, and the willingness to sit with the tea long enough to let it reveal itself.