founder | ritual curator | tea sommelier

Named after her grandmother, Modestine® is rooted in Caribbean bush tea, rituals, and the sensory rhythms that shaped Laura’s upbringing in Grenada.

As a Tea Sommelier, Laura has studied the world's great tea cultures, shaping a vision that elevates Caribbean tea culture within the global conversation about premium tea.

Laura Shanley

"Studying the world's great tea cultures revealed that Caribbean tea culture deserves its place among them. 

Modestine is my way of honoring that belief - bridging heritage, ritual, and premium tea through the lens of a Tea Sommelier".

Those early moments of ceremony with her grandmother, Modestine, shaped Laura's relationship to tea, not simply as a beverage, but as a ritual grounded in rhythm, repetition, and presence.