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About Metropolitan Tea
An unparalleled tea experience, since 1978.
Founded by Tea Master Gerry Vandergrift, The Metropolitan Tea Company has been a pillar of the global luxury tea market for decades. With an ever-expanding inventory, our company offers one of the world’s largest wholesale sources of premium teas, teapots, and accessories. As a manufacturer, we refine, blend, and pack luxury tea and herbs for food service, online stores, cafes, restaurants, and more.
Luxury Tea and Ingredients
At Metropolitan, luxury tea is more than just a product. Luxury tea is quality, sustainability, and social responsibility. Luxury tea is history, tradition and terroir. Luxury tea is ceremony, experience and lifestyle.
130,000 square foot facility
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Tea Innovation
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Wholesale Only
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Become a customer and build your business with our ever-expanding inventory of loose leaf tea, plant-based pyramid teabags, herbal teas and accessories. Speak to a certfiied Tea Master today and ask us about market-specific programs for:
- Online stores
- Specialty tea retailers
- Gift and tourist shops
- Food Service & OCS
- Restaurants, Bars and Cafés
- Luxury Hospitality and Hotels
- Souvenir shops
- Gift basket companies
- Private label
Global Perspective