What is Materos Unidos?
An international award-winning Canadian Yerba Mate brand founded in Montreal, now Canada-wide, with one mission: bringing the highest quality Yerba Mate from South America to Canada.
Matero means someone passionate about mate. Unidos means united. We're people who love mate, united. 🧉
What is Yerba Mate?
Yerba mate pronounced "yer-ba ma-té," "sher-ba"/"djer-ba" in Spanish or Erva mate "erva ma-chi" in Portuguese, is a plant native to South America, deeply rooted in the cultures of Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil. Its leaves are dried and steeped into a drink sipped through a bombilla — a metal straw with a built-in filter. Part beverage, part ritual.
Indigenous Guaraní and Tupi peoples were the first to drink it. Spanish and Portuguese colonizers adopted it. Today it's consumed across South America and even the Middle East, in Lebanon, Syria, and beyond.
Nathan Marko Markarian — Founder
His first trip to Argentina introduced him to maté. Like most, the taste was strange to him at first. Then it became his passion.
Serge Joseph Iskedjian — Co-Founder
His first trip to Brazil introduced him to maté. At first the Brazilian Chimarron style threw him off but then the Paraguayan Tereré style made him fall in love with maté.
