Hi, we’re Blair and Yiming, the founders of Matcha La Vie.
We come from engineering backgrounds. Yiming worked in underwater robotics, and Blair was an engineer at Amazon.
Like many people, we knew what it felt like to live in constant motion - always busy, always thinking, always optimizing, but not always feeling connected to life itself.
Over time, that pace led us to reflect more deeply on what gives life a sense of calm, clarity, and rhythm.
For Blair, tea had always felt close to home.
She grew up in Fujian, a region known for its rich loose-leaf tea culture. Tea carries memory, care, and a way of being.
But in modern life, traditional loose-leaf tea can be difficult to sustain. It asks for time, patience, and a kind of spaciousness that many of us no longer feel we have.
Matcha changed that.
There was no long waiting, no complicated setup, yet the experience still felt intentional. A few minutes were enough to create a pause, to return, to begin again with more clarity.
Through matcha, we were also drawn to the spirit of tea ceremony and the idea of ichi-go ichi-e - treasuring the moment, and finding beauty in everyday life.
That experience is what led us to create Matcha La Vie.
As engineers, we approached matcha with curiosity, rigor, and care.
Blair deepened this journey through the Japanese Tea Course, while together we spent time tasting and learning from many respected Japanese matcha brands, paying close attention to how origin, cultivar, and preparation shape not just flavor, but feeling.
When we created our own, we tested widely until we arrived at two expressions we truly believed in: Nagomi and Hikari — for now.
Each reflects not only a taste profile, but a mood, a different way of moving through the day.
At the heart of Matcha La Vie is a simple hope: to help people feel more at ease bringing matcha into their lives.
We want to take care of the research, comparison, and careful selection, so that you can spend less time searching and more time enjoying.
More than anything, we hope matcha becomes for you what it became for us: a ritual of balance and brightness, care and clarity, and a way of moving through daily life with greater presence.
Live with the wisdom of matcha™
With care,
Blair & Yiming
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