Welcome to Teahouse Choice!
We are passionate about the experience of tea. Our aim is to allow tea drinkers everywhere to enjoy the finest, freshest teas available. Every year we visit the gardens of Asia and taste thousands of teas. Only a choice few are sent back for our discerning clientele. Dedicated to quality, we import our own Teahouse Choice teas from China, Japan, Taiwan, India and Sri Lanka.
Our website is currently closed for renovation, but we will soon be open with exciting new teas for you to enjoy.
Our Taster and Buyer
James Labe became the nation’s first tea sommelier in 1998, when the position was created for him as part of the opening of the flagship W Hotel in New York City. Since then he has become world renowned as a master of tea tasting and preparation. As an instructor, lecturer, taster and sommelier, he has been the subject of hundreds of print, radio and television pieces around the world. He consults for the world’s largest tea concerns and collaborates with great chefs for special tea tasting dinners and afternoon teas. He was the first manager, and for many years the owner of Seattle’s Teahouse Kuan Yin.