When tea meets gastronomy

nunshen, the chefs’ tea brand

At the crossroads of creativity and innovation, nunshen, fine tea manufacture, guides the greatest restaurants and hotels towards new perspectives for discovering this ancestral beverage.

Tea takes its place at the table

Drawing on its expertise and its knowledge of the world of gastronomy, Maison nunshen offers an entirely new sensory approach.

Wine holds a very important place in French culture. The richness of our wine-growing terroirs and the diversity of our wines are rooted in the traditions of our culinary art. Tea, through its sensory richness and the many similarities in cultivation and processing it shares with wine, is gradually earning a place of choice at our tables.

Thanks to a very close collaboration between our Sourcing and Creation Director and the greatest names in gastronomy and hospitality, nunshen brings tea to the table and offers food-and-tea pairings with refined, subtle notes, reflecting the personality of the chef, of their cuisine, imbued with the atmosphere of a place and its history.

While the aim is not to replace wine at our tables, tea offers a gastronomic, alcohol-free alternative, full of richness and subtlety.

This meeting of tea and fine gastronomy is also an opportunity for nunshen to create unique rituals and to accompany the tasting as a sommelier would for wine. The creation of a signature ritual must deliver a memorable customer experience while respecting the establishment’s service constraints.

Maison nunshen’s foremost wish is to pass on its great passion for tea. Every Tea moment is a unique sensory experience, a journey through history and terroirs, a journey through scents, aromas and textures. Each Tea moment is thus carried by elegant, distinguished rituals.

nunshen, the tea benchmark in the world of gastronomy

Maison nunshen’s collaboration with the greatest names in gastronomy aims to pass on its know-how and expertise to elevate the dishes of great chefs.

nunshen thus becomes a benchmark in the world of fine gastronomy, offering a masterful selection of single-origin teas, terroir teas, and creating blends in perfect harmony with the sensory identity of the establishment and the chef’s cuisine.

Maison nunshen has a unique positioning, from sourcing to supporting establishments. The Sourcing and Creation Director also, and above all, has the distinction of being a nose. A rare expertise, shared by no other tea house. The privileged support of establishments is thus made possible only through the perfect mastery of this know-how.

Thanks to regular travels in the tea gardens, the nunshen tea expert works hand in hand and sustainably with her producers to buy the finest-quality tea lots. Her knowledge of the plant, of the terroirs and of the many production processes allows her to master the selection, ensuring a perfect transmission of knowledge during training sessions with the Maison’s clients.

Creating a signature tea

These teas are created, made to measure, in connection with the sensory story the establishment wishes to tell.

The creation of a Signature Tea is always synonymous with a meeting of several worlds: that of tea, of the senses and of gastronomy.

The process of creating a Signature Tea is rich and meticulous. A Signature Tea begins above all with a human encounter and attentive listening to needs. Maison nunshen seeks to grasp as fully as possible its knowledge of the establishment, the olfactory imprints of the place, the identity of the chef’s cuisine and, therefore, their signature ingredients.

nunshen also positions itself in supporting the establishment so that this Signature Tea comes to life. This support takes place through training sessions in which teams discover the creative process, learn to know the history of the teas and the plants that compose them, and learn to set up the right ritual to present and serve them.

nunshen teas: creativity and innovation

The nunshen atelier is a great place of creativity and innovation for the brand. It is here that our Sourcing and Creation Director thinks, creates, tastes and weaves the pairings and creations before finalising them with our clients in their establishment.

The nunshen atelier is also a unique place where enthusiasts come in search of expertise, training and discovery — all while awakening every sense and exchanging each other’s knowledge.

This harmonious, collaborative work allows nunshen to offer exceptional single-origin teas and to create subtle blends while revealing the finesse and quintessence of flavours and the richness of terroirs and plantations.

Creativity and innovation — two words the nunshen Fine Tea Manufacture brings together to develop new products paired with dishes as surprising as they are singular: ice creams, cocktails, pastries or even cheeses…

As a fine tea manufacture, Maison nunshen is resolutely creative, surprising and innovative.

Sensory experience, emotion, taste values — so many qualities that the discovery and knowledge of tea help to acquire so that, with each tasting, the simple tea drinker becomes a connoisseur.