Tea shops · Montevideo, Uruguay
The Carrasco counter of a tea sommelier who designs her own blends: around thirty of them, most in 80 g tins.
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The house
Sinfonía is a house of blends, not of single origins. The list was designed by Mónica Devoto, a tea sommelier who is also the author of a book on tea that the shop sells over the counter. Several of the house's original blends are still in the catalogue, Secretos de Aída and Earl Grey Selection among them, which is unusual in a business where the range is normally rewritten every couple of years.
The default format is an 80 g tin, which the shop says makes about forty cups. Around it there are smaller ways in: tubes of 12 to 18 g, boxes of twenty-five 2 g pyramids, and kraft bags of 25, 50 and 100 g. The catalogue lists about thirty teas and infusions, filed by type — white, yellow, green, matcha, oolong, black, pu-erh, rooibos, herbals — plus an olive-leaf line the house developed with the Facultad de Química of the Universidad de la República.
The Arocena shop is the only one the house owns: its teas also reach 127 listed points of sale across ten departments, from cafés and restaurants to the airport free shop, but this is the one counter where the whole range sits together. Pickup on online orders is free here, and the shop ships across the country. Devoto also runs tastings and training, and has taught the introductory tea course at the Instituto Turístico Hotelero del Uruguay since 2018.
Montevideo · Uruguay
Av. Arocena 1976 esq. Lieja, Montevideo
On Avenida Arocena, in Carrasco. Free pickup for online orders.
Published hours: Mon–Fri 10:00–19:00
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The FindMeTea edit
01 · Oolong tea
The only oolong sold as a single leaf in a catalogue built on blends, and the easiest one to like: milky, soft, in the same 80 g tin as the rest.
$U 890· 80 g
Explore this tea →02 · Matcha
Organic matcha from Kyoto in a 25 g tin, which is the cheapest way into matcha anywhere in the city.
$U 300· 25 g
Explore this tea →03 · Yerba mate
Yerba mate blended with blackberry, mint and fruit, in a tin. Nobody outside the Río de la Plata sells anything like it.
$U 820· 80 g
Explore this tea →The one worth the trip
One of the house's original blends, named after a grandmother who drank tea for 110 years, and still on the shelf. It exists nowhere else, which is the whole point of coming to the counter instead of buying a supermarket tin.
$U 890· 80 g
Prices
Prices are indicative. Each price keeps its currency and pack size; this selection does not necessarily cover the house's complete range.
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