Subscription services are available for many food or drink items or full meals and have been a game changer for people who are connoisseurs of things like wine, meat and even tea. Drinking a cup of tea is a refreshing experience for those who enjoy the beverage and now it's made even more enjoyable by being delivered straight to your door. The best tea subscriptions offer a variety of teas: green, black, herbal and breakfast blends.
To help you find the best subscriptions and monthly tea delivery services (for yourself or a loved one), we've steeped ourselves in several top tea clubs to find the best ones for 2024, and have tried all the tea clubs listed below to see what they do best. All the tea subscriptions we recommend make great gifts; just make sure you plug in your recipient's address and not your own.
(More of a coffee drinker? We've tried the top coffee clubs, too.)
If you have an adventurous tea drinker on your shopping list, this is a loose-leaf tea monthly club to gift. My subscription contained several teas that made me say "Oooh, I wonder how that'll be" or "I didn't know you could make tea taste like that." Most of them did work very well, including a creme brulee oolong and pumpkin spice black tea.
Subscribers to this loose tea service can choose from a mixed tea subscription box, a black tea box, a green tea box and an herbal tea box. A new fresh and fragrant unique tea will be delivered monthly, bimonthly or quarterly.
Each fresh tea box comes with a curated selection of teas (14 grams of each) packaged with information about each of the different teas and enclosed in resealable bags. The teas will vary based on the season and trending flavors. You will also get reusable cotton tea filters with the first monthly subscription.
Pricing: A subscription for three half-ounce samples starts at $18 a month for a full year of subscription paid annually.
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Atlas lets you customize your subscription a bit more. When signing up for this tea subscription box, you'll log whether you want pure teas, blended teas or a variety. You also choose if you'd like flavored and pure teas, herbal blends or all tea types.
Atlas lives up to its name with elegant teas from some of the best tea-producing regions in the world including many in the East like Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, India and Nepal.
Just like the sister subscription Atlas Coffee Club, all these teas arrive with corresponding postcards that contain info about the region the tea hails from. I love that touch and can't think of a more delightful thing to peruse while I'm sipping the stuff.
The baseline subscription for this service isn't a massive amount of tea per delivery, so this is a perfect tea club for a moderate tea drinker or a tea lover who has a standard morning variety but likes to mix in a fun new herbal or oolong every once in a while.
Pricing: A subscription gives two teas per month (30 cups) and is $4 for the first shipment and $14 after. Sign-up is simple and you can cancel anytime.
Art of Tea has one of the more intense tea clubs to experience every tea type. To get a sense of your preferences, you can try the tea profile quiz where it collects information such as what time you drink tea, flavor likes and dislikes and how experienced you are with tea. At the end it will recommend teas based on your answers.
The Tea Club Subscription allows you to choose from six different tea subscription types: single origin, pyramid teabags, classics, caffeine-free, explore and wellness. You'll also select either a three-month, six-month and 12-month plan.
Each monthly tea box contained just one type of tea. I got four ounces of a warm masala chai in my first box and it was heaven on a cool Sunday afternoon. Between two and four ounces of tea (or 12 teabags if you've selected pyramid sachets) will be shipped out with information to dive deeper into the wide world of tea. Teas are seasonally selected and you'll get a new fresh tea or flavored teas each month.
Be aware that, depending on your tea club selection (single-origin, classic, tea bags), Art of Tea sends a different quantity of tea but the prices are the same. There's also a sprawling shop of teas and tea-related products if you're not a subscription person.
Pricing: A three-month subscription is $81, six months is $133 and a full year costs $254.
As if a warm cup of tea didn't already make you feel good enough, how about supporting only small tea farmers in the process? Verdant Tea Club functions like a CSA with teas that are selected each month from a single farmer to highlight their family's work.
My first delivery included a toasty oolong, green tea and two rich black teas (all loose leaf) along with brewing instructions for each one and colorful background information on that month's small farm.
Pricing: Verdant Tea Club costs $35 per month, $99 for three months, $195 for six months or $385 for a year and will include anywhere from three to 10 teas totaling 75 grams (about 2.6 ounces). Those are likely to include hyper-seasonal teas and fresh, limited harvests, too.
The Republic of Tea is a sprawling market of teas with a subscription option, should you choose it. Sign up for the Tea of the Month Club and you'll get 50 bags of a new tea every 30 days unless you get the assortment subscription. You can select the assorted tea subscription or all your teas in one category like black teas, herbal teas, wellness blends and more.
The big difference between this tea subscription service and most of the other tea subscription boxes is you can see the entire six or 12 months of tea deliveries ahead of time and decide beforehand if the assortment seems like one you're interested in tasting. It also makes it the perfect gift subscription since you'll know which teas are coming but your loved one will be surprised every month.
The tea from Republic of Tea is excellent but be aware that the subscription is a little more clunky and impersonal than the others. This is a good gift for the pragmatic tea drinker on your list.
Pricing: Six months of tea club deliveries is $109 and a full year is $190.