Grapevine - Colleyville - Southlake | February 2024

Business

BY JONATHAN PERRIELLO

Store manager Stephanie Wells (center) volunteered at the Grapevine rst responders luncheon in November.

The business sells herbs, spices, salts, sugars, peppers and fresh tea leaves for individual or wholesale quantities.

PHOTOS COURTESY THE SPICE & TEA EXCHANGE

The Spice & Tea Exchange specializes in avor The Spice & Tea Exchange of Grapevine strives to create a “more avorful life” for its customers, store manager Stephanie Wells said.

proximity to the airport, its festivals and wealth of history made it an ideal destination for the business. The store opened in 2012, Wells said. What’s for sale? The store carries over 70 blends of tea within several tea leaf varieties, she said. The store also oers over 100 dierent types of spice and herbs as well as over 30 types of sugar and salts, Wells said. It also crafts over 70 custom spice blends in house. The Spice & Tea Exchange also puts together local sample packs that pair three avors, such as the Taste of Grapevine, which uses merlot and chardon- nay sea salt and Mantazas chili. The blend is tailored to the Grapevine community, paying homage to Grapefest and the chili cooko, Wells said.

The store oers samples of its spices and teas.

The business sells herbs, spices, salts, sugars, pep- pers and fresh tea leaves for individual or wholesale quantities, Wells said. The storefront also features a tea bar where any of the blends can be brewed to order either hot or cold. The backstory Franchise owners Nancy and Jerry McBrayer opened their rst Spice & Tea Exchange location in the Fort Worth Stockyards 15 years ago, but had their eye on Historic Grapevine soon after, Wells said. While they knew there wouldn’t be as much foot trac as the stockyard location, Grapevine’s

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319 S. Main St., Grapevine www.spiceandtea.com/grapevine

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