Teance

Teance is located in Berkeley, CA just east of San Francisco, home of some of the most leading gourmet food and beverage products in the world. Formerly known as Celadon Fine Teas, the mission of Teance is to promote tea connoisseurship. By providing the most pure, premium, seasonal whole leaf teas possible, we hope to introduce to the consumer the... enjoyment, health benefits, and the serenity that comes with drinking tea. Teance is named for tea and all of the elegant thoughts associated with it: nuance, ambiance, elegance. Our mission is to introduce and revive the art of drinking, preparing, and appreciating traditional, whole leaf teas. The best teas from the Far East-competition winners, rare and available nowhere else in the country-can be sampled here. Teance supports traditional tea cultivation techniques in Asia by importing directly from boutique farms and farming collectives, bringing our customers the purest, best quality regional teas available. Our teas range from the finest, freshest handpicked Pre-Rain Dragonwell to some of the oldest Aged Pu-erhs existent. Since opening in January of 2002, our tearoom and shop, Celadon Fine Teas, has been featured in the May 2003 Organic Style, where it mentioned our Pre-Rain Dragonwell and Wen Shan Baochong under their 10 best teas list. We were also featured in Sunset magazine's January 2003 Best of the West issue, as well as reviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle, East Bay Express, and numerous other San Francisco Bay Area local publications.Read More