Our business ethic is one of honesty and trust, where the relationship and satisfaction of both our customers and our suppliers is our guiding principle. Our regular trips allow us to not just find the best teas, but also visit our supplier's farms to personally verify their growing and production methods and techniques.
In order to guarantee the freshness and quality of the tea we sell, TeaVivre only buys tea directly from the tea producers who have a proven track record in producing top quality teas using organic, traditional methods.
In the last few years, China's tea producers – and drinkers – have realized the taste, quality, health and environmental benefits of producing tea organically and so have introduced organic production on a large scale. As a result TeaVivre offers you a range of organic teas from several different provinces in China. We thoroughly check to make sure that our organic teas have been verified as organic by recognized independent international organizations. To insure that our teas are good for both your health and for the environment, we consider pesticide problems as the foremost criterion of selecting a tea, and all our teas that meet the European low pesticide residues standard are analyzed with Quality Safety Testing Reports.
Our organic teas all adhere to at least one of the following international organic regulations:
- France and Europe: EU Regulation (EC)
- United States: US FDA Regulation NOP (National Organic Program).
- Japan: JAS (Japanese Agricultural Standard).
TeaVivre's Purchase policy – a commitment of quality and authenticity
TeaVivre guarantees to our customers:
- the origin of the teas. All our teas are only produced in China,
- production honors the traditional Chinese manufacturing methods
- we directly visit and work with our suppliers to bring the highest quality and best prices
- we work with a team of certified tea experts to select only the best teas available in China
At TeaVivre we invite you to share in our passion for truly great tea, and it is our pleasure to give you the chance to discover and explore Chinese teas that we drink daily.
How We Select and Purchase Tea
1. Start With A Tour to Tea Gardens
We make regular visitation to the tea gardens of the suppliers we already have, to get the latest information about the tea’s harvest, its quality and the market condition. In the meantime we develop new suppliers by touring to new tea gardens in different places, to seek for high quality teas. The very first factor we considered for selecting a tea is that the tea should meet the low pesticide residues requirement of European or USA.
2. Select the Teas
We carefully select each kind of teas for sell. Among the tea gardens which meet our standard, we will choose more desirable ones, and contact them for tea samples. Various tea samples from different tea gardens will be strictly checked for the dry tea, aroma, tea liquid, infusion times, flavor and appearance of tea leaves. Usually, only two or three teas will be remained after the first sample check.
After that we will arrange another check of the teas in our final list. Then seriously choose one of them as product.
3. Make A Purchase
By the time we decide the tea for sell, we will instantly contact the tea farmer to confirm the purchasing, package and shipment, and then sign the contract. Normally the tea will arrive at our warehouse in 2 – 4 workdays.
4. Put Teas Online
After the purchasing process is done, we begin to prepare the new arrivals right away. The teas will be online on our site with exact description and in-kind product images. Every photo of TeaVivre’s tea on the site is photographed by our own product team.
5. Keep the Tea Fresh
In order to keep the tea fresh, every year’s spring tea and autumn tea will be purchased in 10 days as soon as new teas are made. Specially, for some green teas such as Ming Qian Long Jing, of which the material is very rare, we will purchase a quantity for the whole year’s sale to make sure the tea is from the same batch so that the quality will stay the same.
We set a standard warehouse in Xiamen. The teas we purchased will be well-stored in the warehouse. Other than this, in 2013, a large refrigerated warehouse was built in Hangzhou for storing green tea, using advanced technology to maintain the tea’s freshness.
6. Confirm the Quality
Before a new batch of tea is put in storage, we will check its quality by comparing with the samples we kept from the original batch, in order to confirm that the quality of every batch is not lower than the original tea.
The team TeaVivre
Tea For Life!
