“In downtown San Jose, I love Single Barrel, a speakeasy,” she said. There’d be no alcohol in them but mixed tea in terms of lemonade or soda water mixed in with tea,” Victoria said.īeing a bay area native, Victoria has some favorite local joints. “I’m working on doing some tea mixed drinks. New tea drinks are in the future as well. ![]() But I’m not sure if it’d be black or green tea.” I haven’t nailed it quite yet, but it’d probably have plum apricot and some almond. I’m developing one now called Valley of Heart’s Delight to tell that story. “This area used to be covered with apricots, peaches, and cherries. The south bay area also plays a role in her flavor development. If enough people start asking, I start blending,” she explains. She is always developing new flavors in the meantime. “When you’re enjoying the ritual of tea, you have an enlightenment moment when you’re letting go of thoughts and feelings, like meditation,” Victoria said. “It’s a moment on the path toward nirvana.” She and Tamara got the name from a book on tea and noted the similarity between the concept and the atmosphere she was creating in her shop. “’Satori’ means ‘enlightenment,’” Victoria explained. By August 2010, she opened up her brick and mortar shop, the Satori Tea Company. By 2008, Victoria was setting up a stand in local farmers markets. Starting off small, Victoria and her mother, Tamara (who helps her run the shop), gathered names of international tea suppliers and began creating their own tea. ![]() “So I asked myself – what do you like to do? What’s your passion? And I realized that tea was a passion of mine.”īut noting that tea shops in the US tended to be a bit more formal and old-fashioned, Victoria spotted a hole in the market – a lack of shops with a contemporary and relaxed atmosphere (with no frilly doilies to be found). After graduating, Victoria moved to LA to pursue a fashion career. While in England, she “went to every possible tea shop I could,” she said. But, figuring a career in tea would be a goal after retirement, Victoria eventually majored in communication during college and hoped to pursue a career in fashion.įor eight months in college, Victoria studied abroad in London, and it was there the idea of tea picked up again. Despite being (by far) the youngest in the class, Victoria took to the tea concept immediately – the brewing, the mixing of milk and sugar, the preparation of it all. When she was 7 years old, Victoria Boyert took a tea class that would mark the start of her passion with tea.
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