Business: Quinteassential
Concord Alumna: Bernadine Tay (1997-1999)
Job Title: Owner
Product Summary: Drinking tea
Countries Served: based in UK - worldwide shipping
Offer to Concord Alumni: 15% off
Promotion Code: CONCORD-15 at checkout (one use per customer)
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Quinteassential is a Chester, UK based loose leaf tea boutique with award-winning unique teas and healthy tea blends. They create and design artisan teas of uncompromising quality, inspired by travel, culture and the arts.

Bernadine Tay's love of tea started from when she was very small – even before her Concord days sitting around in Red House with her friends! 

“I remember when I was small my mother boiling black tea in the evenings at home in Singapore. It became a ritual, marking the time of day and bringing our whole family and friends together.”

Bernadine noticed that the steaming tea wafting from open cups is what made the outside objects: the family; the stories; the tableware, the magic exists!

It was these memories that led her to delve further into the world of tea and – after graduating from King’s College London’s with a Biomedical Science degree - start her own company, the award-winning Quinteassential.

Bernadine, who is now based in Chester with her Greek husband, Concords very own 1999 Head Prefect Christos Gosdis - is also a master tea blender and the first tea curator for Wedgwood. 

Bernadine is looking for corporate companies from anywhere in the world to partner with to create a bespoke tea that embodies your brand.