Guide to Best Tea of The Month Club & Tea Subscription Box

There’s no better way to explore tea than to join a tea of the month club. But which tea subscription box is the best choice for you? Here is your ultimate guide to the most popular loose tea of the month clubs.

A tea subscription box is a wonderful way to explore tea and expand your tea adventures. Not to mention the convenience of having your favorite tea delivered right to your mailbox each month. But which tea of the month club is best for you?

Here is a comprehensive list of the best tea subscription box companies. These online tea shops are trustworthy, provide great customer service and offer high-quality tea. They are highly recommended by tea enthusiasts. Every tea of the month club experience is different, while some can be tailored to your likes, others cannot.

But that’s OK. The best way to learn about tea is to drink a different tea every day. Sure, we all have our favorite ‘go to’ tea – the one we must have every morning. But as the day goes on it’s fun to explore.

What are the advantages of a tea subscription box?

The best tea subscription box will help you discover new teas from different growing regions with a variety of tea processing methods. There are other advantages as well. You may have exclusive opportunities for:

• Offers of new harvest teas.
• Access to rare teas or small shares of expensive teas.
• First access to fresh teas not sold in the tea shop.
• A variety of growing areas.
• Access to small tea farmers.
• Access to limited stock.
• Tea subscriptions allow you to broaden your tea tastes.

In this listing, I’ve tried to help you discover a range of tea offerings from the beginners’ tea palate to offerings for the more discerning tea palate. I hope you find your perfect tea subscription box.

Best Tea Subscription Box Offerings

(Listed alphabetically)

Adagio Tea

Adagio is a very popular general online tea shop and I’ve had good experiences with them. Their website is great, especially if you are new to tea. They have a lot of helpful reviews and ratings for their teas. Their teas are good quality with fair pricing.

Adagio has two tea of the month club options: Better Tea Club and Tea of the Month.

WHAT YOU GET:

• The Better Tea Club is $7 a month and you can choose, loose, bagged or cold-brew tea iced tea. If you choose the loose leaf, you get 3 different samples, enough to make 30 cups of tea.
• The Tea of the Month is regular shipments of fresh loose teas. You choose from flavored, herbal, white/oolong, black, decaf or green tea and starts at $59 for 6-months for flavored teas up to $119 for 12-months of green teas. The first shipment is two months of tea in one box. Subsequent shipments are two months each.

Amoda

Amoda promotes ethically sourced quality tea blends, without fillers, artificial flavorings or sweeteners. Just pure plant power.

Amoda offers two tea of the month club options: The Original and The Low Caff

WHAT YOU GET:

• The Original Monthly Tea Box is $20 a month and includes a variety of all-natural flavored teas and unique pure teas. You’ll receive a new surprise selection of premium teas each month with a variety of caffeine levels.
• The Low Caff is $20 per month and includes a variety of all-natural flavored & unique pure teas. You’ll receive caffeine-free & low caffeine teas – a surprise mix of teas.
• Each monthly tea subscription box includes 4 premium loose leaf teas (3-5 cups of each), biodegradable tea filters, tasting notes for each tea, exclusive deals for subscribers, steeping guidelines on the labels and 25% off in the online tea shop.

A Canadian company ships to the US.

Art of Tea

I really like this shop overall. It’s another popular all-around tea shop. Their selection is good, with many options and good quality teas. Prices are reasonable, too. Their website is easy to use and I love that they have customer reviews.

WHAT YOU GET:

• Choose from 6 options: Caffeine Free, Classic, Single Origin, Explore, Wellness, and Pyramid Tea Bags.
• Decide how many months: 3-month for $54, 6-month for $107 or 12-month tea for $198.
• Each month you get information on the teas you’re drinking so you can learn more about tea.
• Each month, 2-4 ounces (approximately 30 servings) of a new tea is shipped free. The teas are seasonally selected and alternate each month.

Echo-Cha

Eco-Cha primarily sources Oolong Tea from Taiwan, but they also offer black tea. While all of the three main types of tea—Oolong, Green, and Black—are produced in Taiwan, it is most famous for Oolong Tea. Echo-Cha also has occasional floral blend teas.

Their subscription teas tend to be better than the ones they offer in their online tea shop.

WHAT YOU GET:

• Starting at $29 per month with a discount for paying annually.
• Echo-Cha curates your tea box.
• Each tea box subscription contains 75 grams (2.6 ounces) of rare Taiwanese teas.
• Every month is a new adventure in what Taiwan has to offer.

Field to Cup

Field to Cup is a Tea Discovery service that claims to ‘save you from bad tea’. Tea experts pre-select fresh and high-quality loose-leaf teas from 10s of 1,000s of options, from all over the world. They offer a wide variety of loose leaf teas from orthodox teas to wellness blends.

They offer three different tea box subscriptions: Adventurer,  Discoverer, and Explorer.

WHAT YOU GET:

• Each Field to Cup box gives you a different way to explore new loose leaf teas.
• Adventurer: orthodox, and un-blended tea.
• Discoverer:  gives you more tea types.
• Explorer: for exploring new teas.
• Choose your tea type. Prices vary.
• Example: A 3-month subscription to the Adventurer is $99 and includes:
  • 4 teas total every month (40-72 cups)
  • 2 of the teas are delicious and rare Premium teas (20-36 cups)
  • 2 other teas could be: black, green, herbal, fruit, rooibos, white, oolong, wellness. (20-36 cups)

Global Tea Hut

Global Tea Hut is a monthly tea magazine with very comprehensive information on Chinese and Taiwanese tea types.  The magazine has in-depth articles on tea wisdom, tea science, tea processing, tea brewing, tea history, and Cha Dao. It also has a community organization across 30 countries.

WHAT YOU GET:

• A monthly subscription starts at $25 and includes one small tin of Chinese or Taiwanese tea per month along with the magazine. 
• The teas vary every month and are unique and rare teas. Everything from Liu Bao black tea to master-roasted Taiwanese oolong, from Dian Hong (Yunnan red tea) to green tea. 
• The magazine and tea are paired with articles that help educate you about the month’s tea. All their teas are chemical free and sustainably farmed.

I’ve learned a lot about Chinese teas this way and discovered some very interesting teas.

Heavenly Tea Leaves

Founded by Noushin Ebrani, a cancer survivor, Heavenly Tea Leaves offers more than 150 varieties of single-estate gourmet teas, seasonal teas, custom in-house blends, and traditional teas. Their signature loose leaf tea samplers are their specialty.

WHAT YOU GET:

• They offer a Loose Leaf Tea of the Month Club that’s a combination of some of their most popular loose leaf teas.
• As a part of the club, you will receive two tea samplers (8 tea tins) every other month.
• Choose from 2-month for $65, 4-month for $125, 6-month for $175 or 12-month for $325.

Jalam Teas

Founded by Jeff Fuchs, author of The Ancient Tea Horse Road, Tea & Mountain Journal and The Tea Explorer documentary. Jalam Teas concentrates on Yunnan’s teas, with an emphasis on the heralded Puerhs.

WHAT YOU GET:

• For $19, each month you’ll receive a specially designed 100-gram tea cake complete with an intimate story of each and instructions on how best to prepare your monthly dose of green.
• Each Puerh is hand sourced in limited quantities by Jeff Fuchs from remote villages in Yunnan province of China.
• All teas sourced go to the tea club members first. The remaining stocks are first offered to tea club members and then to the general public.

If tea isn’t offered, a relationship isn’t offered. – Himalayan saying

Japanese Green Tea

Japanese Green Tea Company is a US-based company sourcing tea directly from Arahataen Green Tea Farms in the Shizuoka prefecture in Japan. The farm cultivates a sweeter soil using the Chagusaba Method, an ancient farming method that relies on tending grasslands to enhance soil fertility.

Grasses are grown throughout tea plantations in the summer months, later to be cut down to form an insulating layer to prevent the ground from freezing. Sugar cane and sugar syrup are also added to the soil to enhance its sweetness.

WHAT YOU GET:

The subscription plan is very flexible.

• Select your tea(s) of choice.
• Instead of a one-time order select a subscription delivered at 15, 30 or 60-day intervals for a 20% discount.
• Pricing varies widely depending on the tea.

London Tea Club

A boutique subscription tea service, offering natural and organic teas from small tea farms. Deliveries include small batch high-quality green, white, oolong, Puerh, and herbal teas monthly.

WHAT YOU GET:

• Each month, for $20, members receive 0.5 oz of one tea type, which makes 6-10 servings depending on the tea.
• The teas are selected for you to compliment the season.
• Recent selections included Baozhong oolong from Java, Indonesia. Hand-rolled white tea from Thyolo, Malawi. Charcoal-roasted oolong from Zhushan, Taiwan. Sticky rice flavored Puerh from Yunnan, China. 18 Ruby red tea from Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan.

When tea becomes a ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. – Muriel Bradbury

Mighty Leaf

Mighty Leaf Tea was acquired by Peets Coffee and Tea in 2014. Mighty Leaf specializes in biodegradable tea pouches containing whole-leaf teas, but they also sell loose leaf tea and organic tea.

WHAT YOU GET:

• Choose Black, Green or Herbal tea.
• Choose loose leaf or pouched.
• Select the teas you want in your subscription. Any tea they offer can be added to the subscription.
• Select the frequency from every week to every 8 weeks.
• Pricing varies depending on selections. All subscriptions receive a 10% discount.

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Savoy Tea Company

The Savoy Tea Company is run by a tea certified husband and wife team offering a wide variety of teas online and in their three stores in Arkansas. Savoy carries exclusive blends & flavored teas including black, green, Puerh, and herbals. They offer a Tea Tasters Subscription Club.

WHAT YOU GET:

• Decide how many months: 6-month for $72 or 12-month for $144.
• Each month receive 3 unique teas (about 10g each = 3 to 4 cups per tea) – Even some top-secret teas from the Savoy Tea Lab.

Silver Needle Tea Co.

Founded by Lucy Yang, Silver Needle is a boutique style tea shop offering “the finest single estate teas in the world”. They source single estate teas directly from tea farms in China, Taiwan, and Japan. Despite the name, Silver Needle Tea Co. offers a few varieties of tea including oolongs, white, green, and black teas straight to the source.

WHAT YOU GET:

• A $250.00 annual membership to the Silver Needle Tea Co. Club
• Every month you receive a cylinder filled with the world’s finest tea selected for you.
• Each cylinder contains 30-60 grams (1- 2 ounces) of tea, depending on the tea type.

Simple Loose Leaf

Founded by Andrew Flocks and his two siblings, Simple Loose Leaf is a subscription tea company selling black, green and herbal teas.

WHAT YOU GET:

• $9 per month.
• Pick the types of teas you want to experience each month.
• With 4 new teas every month you can spend the next year discovering 48 unique teas from around the world.

Sips By

Sips By is a multibrand tea subscription box. It looks like they have about 60 different tea companies incorporated in the plan. You fill out a tea profile to match your preferences for your monthly tea subscription boxes.

WHAT YOU GET:

• $15 a month.
• Get 4 premium teas from different brands matched to your profile.
• Each box of premium tea makes 15 cups.

Steven Smith Teamaker

Founded by the late Steven Smith who was also the founder of Tazo tea company and Stash Tea Company. Steven Smith Teamaker is his signature brand known for its curated line of tea flavors blended in small batches in house. I really enjoy their Lord Bergamot, it’s one of the best Earl Grey teas I’ve ever had.

Smith Tea offers three different tea subscription boxes: Teamaker’s Choice Club, Your Favorite Carton, and Your Favorite Loose Tea.

WHAT YOU GET:

• For $15 per month, Teamaker’s Choice Club sends a different signature tea carton every month, with a special holiday bonus of two cartons in December. Their website posts the schedule of tea blends that arrive each month.
• In Your Favorite Carton and Your Favorite Loose Tea, you simply select the tea flavor(s) and quantity you wish to receive each month and subscribe.

Story of My Tea

This is an interesting concept. The Story of My Tea is a blind tea tasting subscription box. You get four loose leaf teas, with only a number and instructions. You guess the tea by tasting and connecting its flavors using the tasting wheel, and guess what tea it is. The reveal cards reveal the name and origin of the tea.

This sounds like it might be fun to do at a tea event or gathering.

WHAT YOU GET:

• $16 per month
• 4 loose leaf teas based on your preferences. Each tea makes 4-6 cups (10-14 grams each)
• A tasting wheel
• 4 reveal cards
• A free tea tasting guide (ebook) – delivered with your box

Suki Tea

Suki’s main tea focus is ethical sourcing and blending of loose leaf teas, herbal infusions, and fruit blends from all over the world.

WHAT YOU GET:

• Choose from 1-month, 3-months, 6-months or 12-month subscriptions.
• Each subscription box contains 4 packets of loose leaf tea, which brews up to 40 cups of tea throughout the month.
• Suki Tea chooses the teas for each month so you can discover new tea blends.
• Each loose leaf tea packet is from 10-20g each. Includes brewing guides, recipe recommendations and tasting notes.

Based in the UK, they ship worldwide.

Teabox

Teabox is an Indian based online tea company specializing in high-quality single estate Indian grown loose leaf teas. They source fresh teas from Indian tea estates in Darjeeling, Assam, and the Nilgiris as well as freshest teas from Nepal.

Darjeeling and Nilgiri black teas are some of my personal favorites. And you can’t make a good English Breakfast tea without a good Assam.

WHAT YOU GET:

• $ 29.99 per month
• 5 premium teas each month 1.06 oz of each tea totaling 5.3 oz (60 -70 cups)
• each month is a different themed tea subscription box
  • EXAMPLE: The Blue Hills Box includes: Burnside Classic Spring Green Tea, Nilgiri Jasmine Green Tea, Kodanad Classic Winter Clonal Black Tea, Havukal Special Winter Frost Black Tea, and Korakundah Special Winter Frost Green Tea.

Teatulia

Specializes in Indian teas. A Denver based company co-founded by Dr. Kazi Anis and Linda Appel Lipsius, they focus on sustainability, 100% organic fresh tea and the women of Bangladesh. Teatulia teas are single garden teas, grown and hand plucked in the beautiful tea gardens of the Kazi & Kazi Tea Estate in Northern Bangladesh, then delivered directly to the consumer.

Teatulia offers a Tea of the Month.

WHAT YOU GET:

•  3-months for $35,  6-months for $65, 12-months for $120)
• A new tea every month selected for you.
• Each canister includes convenient, compostable tea bags with handy tips for hot and cold brewing.
• Tea education: Learn something new about tea each month.

Tea Runners

Founded by Charlie Ritchie and Jewel Staite, Tea Runners is a tea club. Every month members receive a curated collection of four of the world’s best loose leaf teas, along with tasting notes and brewing instructions. Offering black, white, green, oolong, Puerh and herbal teas.

The tea they ship is incredible, all the black teas are delicious. I was very happy with my subscription.

WHAT YOU GET:

• Choice of four boxes: Original Box, Pure Tea Box, Herbal Tea Box, and All Black Tea Box
• Choice of three delivery schedules: monthly for $25, 3- month for $67.50, 6 months for $127.50, 12 months for $255
• Every box comes with 4 pouches of tea and each pouch contains roughly 1 oz of tea. This is enough to make 30-40 cups of tea

The Tea Crane

Organic and natural Japanese teas founded by tea-master Tyas Sōsen. First certified Belgian Japanese tea instructor and Tea-ceremony teacher in the Enshū school.

The Tea Crane specializes in safe, environmental and healthy organic teas from Japan.

WHAT YOU GET:

• $25 for 1-month, $125 for 6-month and $250 for 12-month subscription.
• One package of 30 to 50 grams of an authentic, naturally produced tea, which otherwise cannot be obtained elsewhere.
• A different package of artisan Japanese tea selected for you each month.
• A course on artisan Japanese tea comprised of detailed information on natural farming techniques, interviews with farmers, brewing guides, and much more.
• A monthly newsletter concerning artisan Japanese tea.
• Access to exclusive subscriber-only videos.
• Direct access for answers to your questions on Japanese tea.

The Tea Sparrow

Co-founded by Michael Menashy and Zeta Newis with Jane Pettigrew as one of the original co-founders, The Tea Sparrow is a subscription tea company. The teas they offer are premium pure blends free from artificial additives or flavorings.

WHAT YOU GET:

• With your Tea Sparrow subscription, you’ll receive 4 select loose-leaf teas each month: one black, one green, one rooibos, and one herbal tea. You can expect about 35 cups of tea per month: more than enough to spread the love or completely hoard for yourself.
• $20 per month.

A Canadian company with free shipping to the US for tea subscription members.

The Tea Spot

Founded by Maria Uspenski, cancer survivor and author of Cancer Hates Tea. I’m a huge fan of The Tea Spot Subscription Box. They offer a really nice variety of whole leaf teas harvested from world-renowned tea estates as well as handcrafted signature blends.

WHAT YOU GET:

• A monthly subscription of 4 loose leaf teas changing all the time so you get a good variety. It arrives in a cute box with a tea education postcard. They also include a loose leaf tea infuser!
• Each shipment is a “blind box” — so it’s really a great way to expand your tea horizons. If you’re stuck in a tea rut, you won’t be after receiving the surprising variety of excellent teas offered.
• Over 15 servings of tea each month for $14.95.

The Whistling Kettle

Founded by Kevin and Meahgan Borowsky The Whistling Kettle is a full-service restaurant & tearoom in Ballston Spa & Troy NY. They offer a full line of loose leaf tea and tea accessories online.

The Whistling Kettle has four tea of the month club options: Discovery Tea, Herbal and Caffeine-free Tea, Pure Tea Discovery, and Black Tea of the month club.

WHAT YOU GET:

• Discovery Club: This subscription box of loose leaf teas includes a wide variety of flavors. The Discovery Club tea subscription box includes flavored green teas, black teas, decaf herbal teas and more.
• Includes a tea informative postcard and each tea sample is labeled with its specific steeping instructions.
• Each month you receive 5 individual loose leaf tea samples featuring a wide range of tea selections which make 24-36 cups of tea.
• Prices range from $15 to $17 per month depending on the club selected.

Verdant Tea

A marketplace for small family tea farmers, directly from their farm to your cup. This Minnesota tea shop has a unique approach to tea shopping. You don’t shop by the tea type or by the country – you shop by the farmer. They specialize in Chinese teas black, green, white, Puerh and herbals.

WHAT YOU GET:

• An extremely unique system, also highly recommend, you join a monthly CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) from small family tea farmers.
• The farmers choose to offer an array of samples to give you the best exposure to what they do, so you could receive up to 15 different samples in a given box. The total tea will still be 75 grams (2.6 ounces) or more.
• Cost is $30 per month with 50% off the first month.
• Choose 3- month, 6-month for $165 or 12-month for $330.

White2Tea

White2tea is a minimalist tea company created by passionate Puer lovers based in China. They offer Puer, white, oolong and black teas.

WHAT YOU GET:

• Members receive a variety of teas each month, shipped worldwide, for $29.99/month. Quantity unknown.
• Tea club members receive special benefits each month, including exclusive discounts on tea club teas and access to tea club only productions.
• White2Tea chooses quality teas that offer a range of experiences. Every month is a surprise. Their tea club touches on a variety of tea styles from diverse regions.

Yunnan Sourcing

Most people shop here for Puerh tea. Excellent selection of ripe and raw Puerh, oolong, black, and white tea. They also sell some unusual teas like purple tea and yak butter tea. Puerh samples are available.

Yunnan Sourcing offers six different tea subscription boxes.

WHAT YOU GET:

• Monthly subscription for $30 for several different teas shipped monthly.
• Choose your subscription from six different plans.
• Dark Tea Club :
  • Black tea, Roasted Oolongs, Ripe Pu-erh and Hei Cha (Liu An, Tian Jian, Hunan tea)
  • 3 different teas totaling no less than 75 grams.

• Ripe and Raw Club 
  • Raw Pu-erh and Ripe Pu-erh teas. Some aged, some young, but all good!
  • 3 different teas totaling no less than 75 grams.

• Raw Pu-erh Snobs!
  • ALL Raw Pu-erh.  Some aged, all good!
  • 3 different teas totaling no less than 60 grams.

• Jade Club
  • Green tea, White tea and Jade Oolongs (Tie Guan Yin, Light Dan Cong, Ben Shan)
  • 3 different teas totaling no less than 75 grams.

• Oolong Club
  • Oolong teas of any type, including but not limited to Anxi Oolongs, Dan Cong Oolongs, Wu Yi Oolongs or Yunnan Oolongs.
  • 3 teas, and no less than 75 grams each month.

• Premium Plan ($50 for our Premium Plan)
  • Any and all teas on our site, just the best Puerhs, Black, White, Green and oolong teas.
  • 4 different teas totaling no less than 150 grams.

Yunomi

Yunomi is a Japanese tea company sourcing tea from over 140 artisanal and small-scale tea farms, small-scale tea factories, and specialty merchants. Yunomi has a very large selection of Japanese tea. All of their farms and vendors are listed on their site.

Yunomi offers a wide variety of common and artisan style of Japanese teas. The 12 Japanese Green Teas Variety Set includes Tony Gebely’s authoritative guide on tea: Tea, A User’s Guide.

It’s a great way to try Japanese teas. They offer international shipping reasonably priced. (i.e.: 1500 grams (3 lbs) to the US is $28.00.

WHAT YOU GET:

• Choose a tea for 10% – 20% off the retail price on a subscription delivered at 1, 2 or 3-month intervals.
• Or choose a Mystery Green Tea each month for a 10-20% discount. This might be a good choice since they have hundreds of teas on their website – just hundreds of sencha tea alone!

More Tea Of The Month Clubs

Whew! So much tea so little time!!!

That’s quite a list but I’m sure there are many more tea of the month clubs or subscription tea boxes I’ve missed. If you know of any tea of the month clubs that offer quality teas and you particularly enjoy them, please leave a comment and let us know!

There are a lot of other amazing shops where you can buy tea online, but sadly they don’t offer a tea box subscription option.