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. If you want to add teaware to your first box, see the bottom of the page for a bundle offer.
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 June 2025 box:
Himalayan Beauty
Oolong tea, Nepal
Flavour: floral, fruity, woody
This open-leaf, tippy oolong is a 2023 Spring harvest from the mountainous tea-growing district of Ilam in Nepal. Ilam sits at a similar altitude to the famous tea region, Darjeeling, just across the border in India.
Himalayan Beauty infuses into a beautifully balanced, delicate and fragrant tea with a smooth, creamy texture. Initial floral notes give way to fruity aromas - orange peel, apple skins and muscatel grape – which happily marry with its woody undertone.
Golden Dragon Balls
Dark tea, China
Flavour: wet autumn leaves, coffee, molasses
IMPORTANT NOTE! Because dark teas can be an acquired taste, if you are a new subscriber, we'll send you Da Hong Pao instead, as well as one ball of Golden Dragon as a bonus.
This 2020 ‘ripe’ pu-erh tea is made entirely of leaf buds, harvested from Mang Fei Mountain, Lincang, Yunnan – China’s home province of pu’erh tea.
Ripe pu-erh teas are processed in a similar way to green tea, then fermented in a warm, humid environment for 40 – 50 days, which dramatically transforms the leaf colour and flavour. This particular tea is fermented in bags for more than 60 days, then rolled into large balls.
When infused, the leaves release deep, moody notes – wet autumn leaves, spent coffee grounds, molasses, leather. Each ball yields multiple infusions.
To see what these teas look like, scroll through the images above.
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We have three, six and 12-month gift subscriptions available here.
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