Monthly tea subscription

Invest in your wellbeing, every day

Your monthly tea subscription helps you take healthy time out for yourself, and make that a habit every day. It offers you a regular invitation to feel restored, calm and centered.  It's not only the nutrient content of tea that is good for you, the simple act of preparing and drinking good tea is a grounding experience. 

We believe investing in your wellbeing is not a luxury; it's smart and, these days, it's a necessity. 

Watch Anna talk about the subscription

Note: the cardboard box now differs from the one in the video. See the images above.

What you receive with your subscription

In the first week of every month, you’ll receive a box with two different specialty teas, (see below for this month's teas). Every tea is tasted and chosen by our founder, Certified Tea Master Anna Kydd.

If you’re a regular tea-drinker, drinking 1-2 cups a day, the quantity of tea (2 x 20g pouches) will last you around half the month (each pouch yields a minimum of 14 cups if you steep the same leaves twice). Your first box comes with our tea guide to help you steep and taste your teas.

We focus on high-quality, small-batch teas. Each month, we choose one darker-style tea (dark, black or highly-oxidised oolong) and one lighter-style tea (lightly-oxidised oolong, green, yellow or white). So there should always be one tea that suits your taste buds, plus another to help you experience a new flavour. 

Who is the subscription for? 

If you consider yourself a 'foodie'; if you are curious and love trying new flavours or taking part in food and beverage tastings; and if you are interested in learning more about tea, then our tea subscription is perfect for you.

With specialty tea, the flavours you experience may be different to what you are used to. So, when you drink it, you will have a wonderful experience if you are curious and choose to adopt an adventurous palette. If you love the comfort of your tea tasting the same each time, your best option is to stick to your normal tea brand rather than join our subscription.  

Timing

Your first box is charged and delivered right away. All subsequent boxes are charged on the 1st of each month, then put on the courier the next working day.

Tea knowledge

We believe that knowledge is powerful; that discovering and learning about different types of tea will give you a more enriching experience. By purchasing the monthly subscription box you give us permission to add your email address to our mailing list, so Anna can send you information about your teas each month. Please let us know if you wish to opt-out. 

Questions?

If you'd like to ask Anna anything about the subscription box before you sign up, she'd love to hear from you! Email her at anna@theteacurator.co.nz

In our August 2025 box:

Powdered Hojicha
Green tea, Japan
Flavour: nutty, woody & sweet
Hojicha is made with mature leaves and stalks that are steamed, rolled, dried then roasted. Roasting changes the colour of the leaf from green to brown, transforms the flavour and radically reduces the caffeine content. This tea undergoes an extra step when it is ground into a powder.

You can be creative with Powdered Hojicha: whisk it in hot water to enjoy like traditional matcha, or add warm milk (naturally sweet milks like dairy or oat work best) afterwards to create a Hojicha latte. Use it in baking or mixed with hot water then drizzled over fruit/granola and yoghurt or dessert. 

Kabusencha
Green tea, Japan
Flavour: marine, greens, umami ~ strong & bold
Kabusencha is one of Obubu’s highest grade teas. Shaded for two weeks before harvest, the leaves are lightly steamed, rolled then dried. When infused, these gorgeous jade-green leaves create a bold green tea with strong cooked vegetable and marine notes and a thick mouthfeel. May 2025 harvest.

 Both of these teas come from Obubu Tea Farm in Kyoto, Japan- an agricultural social venture focusing on high quality tea, community contribution and tea education.


To see what these teas look like, scroll through the images above.

Gift a subscription:

We have three, six and 12-month gift subscriptions available here. 

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