Every sitting has its own length, its own leaf and its own table size. The assistant books from this list rather than inventing a session that is not running this month.
Spring green sitting
Ninety minutes across three greens from this year's pick, brewed side by side at the temperature each one actually wants rather than one kettle for all three.
YH-SPRAnyone, no experience assumed
Runs Thursday to Sunday while the spring stock lasts
Oolong through the day
Two hours and nine infusions of a single rolled oolong, watching it change — the sitting people book again.
YH-OOLAnyone
Saturdays, twice a day, all year
Aged and pressed
Ninety minutes on compressed tea: how a cake is broken, what fifteen years does, and what an honest storage history looks like on paper.
YH-PUEAnyone; the room suggests a green sitting first
First and third Friday evenings
Buyer's table
Three hours with the buying office: this season's lots side by side with prices, yields and what the room would not buy, and why.
YH-BUYBuyer's table members and trade
Monthly, by arrangement, two weeks notice
Private table
The whole back room for up to eight, with a list built around what the group has and has not drunk before.
YH-PRIVBooked whole, any membership
Ten days notice; weekday evenings only
First hour
A short, deliberately unintimidating sitting for people who have never done this: four teas, plain language, no ceremony to get wrong.
YH-BEGAnyone
Wednesday and Sunday afternoons, weekly