Who are we?

A SMALL FRENCH BRAND OF HANDMADE TEAS & HERBAL TEAS/INFUSIONS

Magasin de vente de thé et épicerie fine

The FBKT adventure started out with an addiction to tea of course, a love of gastronomy, a taste for travel, a desire to discover the world and to make by hand... mixed with a good dose of daring! There are also epicureans in sneakers who do not recognise themselves in the commercially available brands.

This heralded the beginnings of Fabrikathé, nicknamed FBKT, a young French brand of tea & herbal teas, created in the Loire region in 2016, and offering exclusive traditional recipes inspired by French gastronomy with a high-end, inventive and modern spirit.

Our tea suits all tastes - a tea for you, for him/her, for you, you and you over there, too... provided that you savour our slightly off-beat little world, which dusts down classic tea-time and detaches itself from the often snobbish image passed down from the colonial counters of India.

We wanted to create a premium tea brand on a human, modern scale combining traditional know-how, creativity and delicious flavours.

Located on the Roanne coast, at the foothills of the Massif Central, our workshop - one of the few tea manufacturing workshops ni France - benefits from the magnificent setting of this thermal/wine-growing region.

T H E F B K T E A M

FOUNDER OF FBKT, RECIPE CREATION, TRAINING

A tea sommelier! A former instructor at the Institut Paul Bocuse (2015-2019), he has traveled extensively and is now an expert in tea tasting.

He has now retired from the wine world (and not for health reasons!).

PURCHASING - PLANT EXPERTISE

10 tons of dried plants, over 1000 raw material references, 24 import countries... With a background in pharmaceuticals, Natalya is in charge of supplying the workshop with plants, original teas, fruits, flowers, spices, essential oils... She knows the world of wellness plants inside out!

She's very nurturing and can't resist bringing us little cakes with the tea.

SALES - MARKETING

In charge of the Sales & Marketing/Com' projects, she manages customer relations and brand image. She's also our in-house geek!

A big fan of hard rock and metal, she's always wearing headphones.

ADV - LOGISTICS - PREP

Between them, they handle day-to-day relations with our business customers: while Chacha prepares orders and new installations, Laurine advises, registers, dispatches and invoices...

Laurine => At 1.80m, this basketball player has raised the average height of our team to a whole new level!
Chacha => OrIginally from Thailand, our chacha loves to cook and paint. She's always smiling!

WORKSHOP, ASSEMBLY, RECIPE CREATION

Every day in the workshop, they weigh, cut and blend strawberries, teas, papayas, marrons glacés, verbena, ginger... and can assemble up to 80/100 kg of FBKT teas & infusions by hand every day! They also make pyramids and assemble cocoa and spice recipes!

Jean-Pierre = > Globe-trotter, 25 years as a chef in gourmet restaurants. Trained by Chef 3*.
Manu => Ex-military and very sporty, he's a big fan of mate!

PLANTATION

An agricultural engineer, Olivier oversees the Plantation and our entire agricultural model: irrigation, crop planning, harvest schedule.... We have to think of everything!

Alain, who originally specialized in arboriculture, works in our plots every day, watering, sowing, weeding, planting, harvesting, drying...

FBKT 42155 Pouilly les Nonains - Phone : +33 428 720 090