Plum Deluxe Tea

Plum Deluxe is an Oregon tea company founded by Andy Hayes, who traded a career in enterprise software for tea blending after years of writing about his travels in Europe. The company started in a home basement and grew into an in-house team that hand-blends each batch from ingredients sourced through farms and families it knows well. Its purple hummingbird logo stands for finding stillness in motion, a fitting emblem for a brand built around the calm pleasure of a good cup.

Andy Hayes, founder of Plum Deluxe
Andy Hayes, founder of Plum Deluxe

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The story behind Plum Deluxe Tea

Plum Deluxe grew out of founder Andy Hayes's travels. Time in places like the Netherlands and Scotland sharpened his palate and his curiosity about blends. He wrote about those trips, first on a blog and then in a magazine. When his mother died, her appetite for life pushed him to put something new into the business, and those ideas and conversations eventually became tea. The company traces its start to 2008 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

  • Est. 2008
  • Portland, OR
  • Hand-blended batches
  • Organic, fair-trade ingredients
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Plum Deluxe blends draw on European influences and on the places and memories behind each recipe. Every batch is hand-blended with organic and fair-trade ingredients sourced from farms and families the company knows. Each blend is tested repeatedly before release. Reviewers often mention the small personal touches, such as handwritten notes on many packages, and the brand treats its tea community like extended family.

“We painstakingly source our ingredients from farms and families we know and trust.”

Plum Deluxe Tea