Buds & Beads Sparkling & Leaf Tea

Buds & Beads was founded in 2022 by best friends for more years than they care to count, Jo Thomas and Karina Barry, with more than 35 years of food, wine and hospitality in their veins, they both share a hunger for finding new paths to fulfilling their calling for connecting people in ways that are wholesome, nurturing, uplifting and rewarding. The range of 17 extraordinary teas we’ve selected for Buds & Beads is just a drop in the ocean of some 3,000 tea varieties to be found around the world. We think they’re the finest drops! We love that the cultivation and naming of each tea for the province it is grown in, is similar to the way in which wines are characterised. Classification can be broken down into black, green, oolong, white, pu-er and yellow, and we’ve thoroughly enjoyed arriving at an ideal balance of these in our range. The selection process taught us that, just like wine, we can only fully appreciate a tea once the factors contributing to its unique characteristics are known, such as its place of origin, the altitude, climate and soil composition where it is grown, when it is picked and how it is processed. Curious about our brand name? The buds are the delicate, first flush of Spring growth, hand-picked for our premium teas while they’re bursting with flavour and life-giving nutrients. The beads are the stream of fine bubbles that effervesce from our luscious and nourishing sparkling teas. The bones of it, comes down to a close-knit couple of food-wine-and-fun loving women, whose lifestyles and bodies were crying out for some #notboringthanks nurturing, that we could happily embrace in our everyday.