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 2026 box:

Feng Qing Silver Needles 
White tea, China 
Flavour: soft, delicate & supple with sweet vegetal notes
Delicately hand plucked and processed, this silver needles white tea comes from Da Si village in Feng Qing county, Yunnan province, western China. It is made up entirely of soft downy leaf buds that were harvested in March 2026 in the Chinese Spring. When steeped, they produce a delicate and juicy infusion with a sweet vegetal fresh hay note combined with a fruity hint of melon. The mouthfeel is soft and supple, making this an easy-to-drink tea that works at any time of the day. 

'Dusky Thrush' Tsugumi Kukicha 
Roasted green tea, Japan 
Flavour: charry, nutty, sweet 
Named after the Japanese ‘Dusky Thrush’ bird, Tsugumi Kukicha is made entirely from stems of shaded summer harvest leaves. This tea reflects the ‘wholeness’ philosophy of Japanese Zen Buddhism where the tea farm uses the entire tea leaf without wasting any of its parts.

The stems are steamed, dried then roasted, creating a beautiful interplay of roasted pecan, chamomile and dried fruit notes . It is very low in caffeine. 

This July 2024 harvest tea comes from Obubu Tea Farm, Kyoto Japan - an agricultural social venture with a strong focus 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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