Since 1991, Barnes & Watson Fine Teas® has provided the foodservice industry and specialty retailers with premium teas, tea equipment, tea menu development and training. Barnes & Watson Fine Teas’ journey began with the desire to recreate the taste experience of quality tea blends from centuries ago by Tea Masters in England. After carefully re- searching recipes from their tasting journals from the time of Queen Victoria, Barnes & Watson Fine Teas® created a line of traditional single-estate and blended teas based on premium, whole leaf teas available from Asia and India. Barnes & Watson’s primary selection of teas features classic blends, caffeinated and caffeine-free, reflecting an authentic Euro-Asian style, quality and flavor. Also offered are a focused selection of contemporary blends carefully crafted for complex and well-balanced flavors. Our teas are regarded as exceptional in quality and reasonable in cost.

This fine art of tea blending continues each day in Seattle, where we produce smaller batches to retain quality and consistency with every cup. Our hot teas and iced teas are blended specifically to complement food, as well as stand-alone enjoyment. For this reason, word of mouth between the Northwest’s finest chefs has allowed the company to win the coveted position as Seattle’s premier tea company. A founding member of the Specialty Tea Institute, Barnes & Watson Fine Teas® is a market leader having many fine dining clients, with an expanded list throughout the country.

Barnes & Watson Fine Teas® began with the mission of elevating tea service for the hospitality industry. The company’s handcrafted tea selections include classic blends, regional teas, scented teas, green teas, white teas, decaffeinated teas, iced teas and herbals infusions.

Barnes & Watson Fine Teas® is renowned in the hospitality industry for extraordinary quality of flavor and competitive prices. Each tea offered is cupped for quality and consistency in flavor at several stages of the production process and later at multiple points in time to insure freshness. All our teas are specifically chosen to complement fine food.

The traditional blends have been developed after researching tea-blending journals from the Queen Victoria era. The scented choices are true to the Euro-Asian tradition in which one can taste the tea along with the flavor notes. The herbal infusions offered have been created through a careful selection process of superior and fragrant herbs and spices. 

Barnes & Watson Fine Teas® has received several honors over the past fifteen years. These honors include a best blend award by Tea Quarterly, a second place award for beverage packaging at the Global Design Awards, selection as the tea company for the James Beard Foundation’s Dinner of the Decade in Seattle and featured as one of six companies out of two thousand exhibitors on CNN’s, On the Menu coverage of the National Restaurant Association show. The company is a founding member of the Specialty Tea Institute of the Tea Association of the USA (STI) and holds a board position on the professional tea certification program for STI. We have taught tea classes for the World Tea Expo, STI, culinary schools, restaurants and various other organizations. Barnes & Watson Fine Teas® has many prestigious clients across the country, such as Postrio & the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, Rovers, Canlis & Tom Douglas Restaurants in Seattle, Restaurants Unlimited diverse and expanded national fine-dining chain, Charlie Palmers Metrasur in New York, The Conrad Hilton in Chicago, the Westin Diplomat Resort in Florida and the Phoenician Hotel in Arizona.

We are proud to offer Artisan teas, Flowering Teas, and loose leaf teas from Spirit of the Lotus.  They have alliances with some of the best tea producers in Asia, as well as some of the finest tea importers here in the USA.  They have their own warehouse and packing facility.   They deal only with established and reputable growers and processors

Many of their teas are USDA Organic certified, and the ones that aren't come from growers and processors dedicated to high-quality teas and safe production methods.  They are personally involved in their source gardens and have checked-out the conditions in the factories, fields and warehouses.

We also offer a wide range of teapots, teacups, brewing equipment, and brewing and storage accessories.   We're constantly looking for new teas and tea accessories to add to our product line.