At the SF International Tea Festival, guests have the opportunity to savor hundreds of different types of teas from our local and global vendors.
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Bardo Tea
The act of having tea creates a moment in between time - Bardo : The Space Between. Curator of fine teas and teaware from around the world.
Boon Tea
Boon Tea is the only quintessential California lifestyle brand dedicated to creating a one-of-a-kind American tea experience through authentic storytelling and understanding and appreciation of the arts and culture.
Charlotte Truffles
Foods and flavors can evoke memories, create new memories, and have the power to unite people through shared experience. Our purpose at Charlotte Truffles is to infuse chocolates and sweet treats with classic cultural flavors to help people reconnect with their own heritage and to discover a new world of flavors.
Chico Chai
We blend and brew masala chai by hand, from scratch in Chico, CA. We grind our organic spices fresh, and source all our ingredients thoughtfully.
Cultivate Taste Tea Salon
Cultivate Taste Tea: Passionate purveyors of single origin loose leaf tea. No flavorings, candy, or sugar - just pure indulgence. Certified tea specialists from Specialty Tea Institute expertly sources & offers international award-winning teas online, in our tea salon, & wholesale. High-grade organic & fair-trade ingredients elevate, not mask, the teas, fostering your palate's growth & well-being. Eco-friendly, biodegradable packaging reflects our commitment to a healthier planet. Sip, savor, and embrace the art of tea with us.
Cuzen Matcha
The Cuzen Matcha system produces remarkably fresh matcha from organic, shade-grown leaves and innovative technology. The freshly-ground matcha has a smooth, balanced flavor and gives the drinker a mellow, focused energy that lasts. Our goal is to share freshly-ground matcha with as many people as possible while encouraging the adoption of sustainable systems, whether that’s by partnering with high-quality organic Japanese tea farmers or by minimizing packaging and reducing single-use plastics.
Effie's Homemade
The first bite of an Effie’s biscuit is a moment of pure delight. Lightly sweet with a bright finish of salt, they’re more refined than a cookie, more dynamic than a cracker. Savor on their own or as a perfect companion for tea, coffee or a world of cheese. Either way, Effie’s Homemade honors a rich, farmhouse tradition and continues the spirit of sharing simple pleasures.
GT's Living Foods
GT's Living Foods offers a range of functional, living products made with plants, raw fermentation, probiotics, and ancient wisdom. Perfect for new and experienced kombucha drinkers alike, SYNERGY Kombucha is a fermented tea rich with enzymes and organic acids, brewed with whole ingredients to cultivate 9 billion living probiotics.
Herbs & Kettles
Herbs & Kettles is a premium Indian tea company with the most delicious chai, golden lattes and regional loose leaf teas. We focus on the best single origin, single batch teas that we directly source from small farmers across India.
Jade Chocolates
Internationally awarded chocolates blending teas, spices and tropical fruits from Asia and the Pacific Islands.
Jayme & Tea
Jayme & Tea provides high-quality Taiwanese oolong teas from our family farms to you. Come explore our diverse range of oolongs, from high mountain to charcoal roasted oolong. We look forward to sharing the processing, culture, and stories behind the teas with you at our booth!
K and K Chai
We are a craft tea company in Northern California, creating internationally awarded tea blends by our certified Tea Sommelier. Because everyone deserves to #chaisomethingbetter.
Kazi Yetu
Kazi Yetu is a B Corp company based in Tanzania that creates jobs for women in agriculture through processing, blending, packaging, labeling, and marketing. We make delicious, purely natural, ethically sourced products from Africa and we export to North America, Europe, and beyond. Our vision is to transform the trade of tea and other agricultural products from Africa, bringing more economic gain back to the country of origin. To all conscious consumers out there, join us if you'd like to have an impact on farmers, women, and Africa's growth!
Kiara Naturals
We craft small-batch, Ayurveda-inspired superfood blends that are as effective as they are delicious. Free from unnecessary additives and caffeine, our blends offer a natural, accessible way to fuel your well-being journey, without breaking the bank.
Kitefin Teas & Sundries
Kitefin Teas is known for its deliciously unique, handmade loose-leaf teas, homemade teatime treats, and custom tea accessories. Find your new favorite tea in our wide variety of fun, funky, and functional herbal tisanes and tea blends, or order a custom blend tailored just for you!
Mike & Niki's Honey Co
We are a family-owned business dedicated to producing high-quality honey products while promoting bee conservation and community support.
Mountain Rose Herbs*
People, plants, and planet are more important than profit. This seemingly simple principle is the bedrock on which Mountain Rose Herbs is built, the foundational philosophy that has guided us every day for 33 years and counting. It remains at the heart of each decision we make, each farm partnership we begin, and in each educational resource we share. “People, plants, and planet before profit” is also the foundation of our relationship with our partner farmers throughout the Pacific Northwest, and with our global farm partners through Fair for Life, a rigorous certification standard for fair trade that requires transparency and equity throughout the entire supply chain and provides funding to hard-hit farming communities in order to support life changing innovations in organic agriculture, health, and education.
*Mountain Rose Herbs will not have a booth at the 2024 SF International Tea Festival.
Nepal Tea Collective
Nepal Tea Collective is a public benefit corporation led by first and second generation tea producers from Nepal. Sourcing loose-leaf organic teas directly from small-holder, sustainable farms in Nepal, Nepal Tea Collective distributes the freshest, packed-at-origin orthodox Nepali teas all over the world. Nepal Tea Collective employs a transparent direct-to-consumer model that bolsters community building between farmers and tea-lovers.
Old Ways Tea
Old Ways Tea is a California-based company dedicated to providing you the unique oolong and black teas grown by our family and friends in Wuyishan.
Pure Puer Tea
Pure Puer Tea specializes in world-class puer tea for your health and enjoyment. We also are known as Piao I USA, providers of the best teaware for home, office and travel.
Qiful Life
Qiful Life is a leading supplier of Gourmet, Award Winning and Aged Teas from Asia. From Aged Puerh to Competition Wuyi Mountain Rock Tea and 40 Year Old Teas, We Are the Exclusive Choice for Premium and Aged Teas.
SAKU Tea
SAKU produces an innovative & delicious collection of wellness latte blends with nourishing superfoods & adaptogenic ingredients based in Turmeric, Beetroot, Matcha. We’ve spent years balancing the flavors & are devoted to using only pure, certified organic ingredients. The blends are vegan, organic, free from sugar and have no fillers.
Seven Senses Organic
We are a unique premium organic Greek tea company focused on bringing the healthiest herbal teas from our farms to your cup
Sherpa Chai
After moving to the U.S., Pemba shared this authentic spiced tea blend at his restaurant in Boulder, Colorado, leading to the creation of the Sherpa Chai brand in 2015. Deeply rooted in community and tradition, Sherpa Chai reflects the heritage of the Sherpa people and Pemba’s commitment to giving back to Nepal. They use Nepal Tea Collective's black tea and spices to create the authentic Chai experience.
Silk & Jade
SILK & JADE is a boutique tea house steeped in providing a mindfully curated tea experience. Guests are welcomed to participate in the art of Taiwanese tea culture through a selection of tea ware, delicacies and access to historical knowledge, scientific research, and travel pursuits. While highlighting the untapped yet expansive spectrum of unique oolong teas, SILK & JADE also offers a growing number of tea varietals, including botanical tonics and tisanes.
Sips Global Teas
We offer over 80 different teas from Africa, Asia and South America. We our brick and mortar and online retailers as well as wholesalers. At our Alameda tea shop, customers can taste their selected teas prior to purchasing.
Smile Tea/Kagoshima Seicha
We are premium grade tea brand. Our teas are made for all types of tea-drinking rituals. We help preserve tea lovers; from farmers and vendors to marketers and influencers, and drinkers.
Sporgy Mushrooms
Sporgy Mushrooms, founded in 2018 by chefs Carlee and Adam, specializes in crafting innovative, vegan-friendly mushroom products, including teas, extracts, grow kits, and vintage mushroom art. Committed to health, sustainability, and culinary excellence, we aim to reshape the perception of mushrooms by making them more appealing and relatable. Our products are free from fillers, artificial colors, and flavors, ensuring the highest quality and nutritional value.
Sugimoto Tea Company
Since our establishment in 1946, Sugimoto Tea Company has been dedicated to crafting tea loved by everyday tea drinkers from all walks of life. Our specialty lies in fukamushi, or deep-steamed tea, sourced directly from the local Kanaya region of Shizuoka prefecture. Discover green tea direct from a family-run Japanese tea producer.
Tejava
On a trip to the United States almost 30 years ago, our company founder was pleasantly surprised to see so many people drinking iced tea with their food. Upon his return to Japan, he embarked on the mission of creating a bottled tea, with a ‘real tea’ taste, that paired well with all food. He wanted to avoid the necessity of added sugar, artificial ingredients or added preservatives that would mask the authentic taste of real brewed tea. The search for a great unsweetened tea began! After traveling the world tasting many tea varieties, a black tea from the Indonesian island of Java was chosen, and thus Tejava, “Tea from Java” was born.
Tejava – The Unsweetened Tea – will have a special guest, acclaimed tea sommelier Gabrielle Jammal (Instagram: @the.tea.lady) who will be at their sampling table on Saturday from 12-1 and Sunday from 12:30-1:30 to answer any questions you may have about tea!
The Republic of Tea
The Republic of Tea enriches people’s lives through its premium teas, education and innovation, as it emphasizes a “Sip by Sip Rather Than Gulp by Gulp” lifestyle. Founded in 1992, The Republic of Tea sparked a specialty tea revolution. Today the brand offers an unequaled selection of the highest-quality teas, herbal blends, books and nature-inspired sip ware, available exclusively at specialty retailers throughout the U.S. Further, The Republic of Tea is mindful of how its actions impact the greater community and actively supports worthy organizations like the Whole Planet Foundation, the Prostate Cancer Foundation, Room to Read, Action Against Hunger, The Ethical Tea Partnership and Non-GMO Project verification.
Yizisun
Bay Area-based Yizisun is founded to enrich your daily tea tasting rituals with handcrafted teaware and ceramic arts. Our mission is to bring the delightful tea ceremony experience to your home tea brewing with innovative artisan teawares crafted by dynamic and award-winning artists.
and more tea vendors to come…
