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A hand pours ruby hibiscus tea from the Boteane Easy-peasy glass teapot into a ribbed glass, the hibiscus and fruit open inside the pot, in low autumn sun from a kitchen window

Tea that tastes of something again.

Q: How do you choose your teas?

Refined to the top 5% of global quality standards. We begin with place. From the high gardens of Nuwara Eliya in Sri Lanka to the Cederberg mountains of South Africa, our teas are bought only at the peak of each harvest, and only from the top 10% of the world’s growers. Then we taste. Each lot is tasted against its standard by Master Tea Tasters when it arrives, blended in small batches, sampled every hour, and kept under vacuum so the flavour holds. A spoonful of every batch is kept for fifteen years, so every cup can be traced to the day it was blended. We work with our partners at the Ethical Tea Partnership and Fairtrade. Where a tea carries their mark, its card shows it.

Whole leaves, real fruit and flowers that open in the glass. Five new teas a month, chosen for your taste and the season outside your window.

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4.9 out of 5 · 214 reviewsFairtrade · Rainforest Alliance · Ethical Tea Partnership · Vegan

01Choose your taste.
02Choose your teapot or cold brew bottle.
03Your first five teas arrive. Five new teas follow every month.

Four tastes

One of these is yours.

We choose the teas each month. You choose the taste, and you can change it anytime.

Tap a taste to begin

Not sure which?

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A better cup of tea

Life’s too magnificent
for murky tea.

Whole-ingredient teas to suit your taste turn ordinary afternoons into occasions, and every cup into a treat worth making time for.

Five Boteane loose leaf teas, Pecan Pie, Silky Crème Brûlée, All Starts Allotment, Spicy Sweet Peach and Soul Soother, each pouch standing behind a glass of its brewed tea, hot and iced, with tea leaf, pear, hibiscus, ginger, calendula and cornflower in front

The Boteane Easy-peasy glass teapot pouring golden tea into a ribbed glass mug

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A whole world of flavours.
Every month brings tea from the world’s top 10% of growers, so each box opens with a delightful surprise of flavours you’d never find on your own.
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Tea, without the plastic.
No tea bag means no plastic leaching into hot water, just whole ingredients infusing as the tea brews.
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Easier than it looks.
All it takes is a spoon of tea, water and the time on the pouch, so it's never weak and never bitter. Your teapot or cold brew bottle does the rest.
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Tastes as good as it smells, or it's on us.
Every cup of our tea tastes rich and deep, never thin or watery. If a tea isn't for you, tell us within 14 days and our Flavour Promise puts its value towards a tea you'd rather have.

Every tea is tasted by our Master Tea Taster.

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Nobody tastes it before they buy it

How the tea subscription works

Today

£29

A warm welcome

Five teas and your teapot or cold brew bottle, worth £32, yours to keep.

Then, on the 25th

£22.50

Every month

Five new teas, delivery included.

Every day

Brew

Brew like a pro

Hot in your teapot, or cold in your bottle.

75cups a month

30pa cup

2steeps from most leaves

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This month · November

A Boteane Discovery box open on a wooden table by candlelight, five November tea pouches beside apples, pears, an orange, papaya, ginger, cinnamon and autumn berries. Bonfire and Harvest, the November curation.

Bonfire & Harvest.

Frost on the grass, smoke on the air, the last apples in from the orchard. We curate by the almanac: the weather, the harvest, the way the days and evenings feel. Five teas that taste of the month outside your window, every ingredient picked at its peak. When the season turns, so does your box.

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Inside the box

Every tea is blended to taste of what's in it.

Real ingredients you can see, natural flavours.

Two whole red rosehips and one cut open to show the seeds inside, on a pale ground

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Real pieces, full flavour.
Fruit, petals, spices, roots and leaves, so the flavour carries into every sip.
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Natural flavours, misted on.
Natural flavour is misted over the ingredients, and the mist dries away. All that stays is the taste.
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As kind as it is delicious.
Our teas carry the Fairtrade, Rainforest Alliance and Ethical Tea Partnership marks, and every box is vegan, so each cup does good long before it reaches you.

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In this month's cups

A few of November's ingredients

A whole pear and a pear half with its core and pips, on a pale ground — Pear piecesSoft pear, honeyed, orchardAnatolia, Turkey
Pieces of orchard pear from Anatolia, in Turkey, that you can see in the pouch. In the cup they bring a soft, honeyed sweetness and a pear-cobbler finish to our Polar Bear Pear.

Three deep red dried hibiscus calyces on a pale ground — HibiscusTart, berry, rubyFayoum, Egypt
In Egypt, where ours is grown in the Fayoum oasis, hibiscus is brewed as karkadé. The deep red calyces are gathered once the flowers have fallen, then dried in the sun, for a ruby cup with a bright, tart edge. It is the colour in our Cranberry Apple Popsicle.

A whole turmeric root beside two cut slices showing the bright orange inside, on a pale ground — TurmericEarthy, warm, goldenKerala, India
Turmeric has been grown along the coast of Kerala, in south-west India, for thousands of years. The roots are lifted, boiled and dried in the sun until they turn the deep gold that colours your cup. Earthy and warm, it is the glow at the heart of our Soul Soother.

Two curled cinnamon quills and a flake of bark, on a pale ground — CinnamonWarm, sweet spice, woodyPetchabun, Thailand
Cinnamon is the inner bark of a tropical evergreen, and ours grows in the hills of Petchabun, in Thailand. Once peeled, it curls into quills as it dries. In our Polar Bear Pear it warms the orchard fruit like a crumble in the oven: sweet, woody and gently spiced.

A sprig of dark purple elderberries with three loose berries beside it, on a pale ground — ElderberriesJammy, dark berry, deepAnatolia, Turkey
Elder grows wild across Anatolia, in Turkey. It flowers in early summer, and by September its blossom has become heavy clusters of dark berries. Dried, they give a deep purple colour and a soft, jammy depth: the hedgerow note in our Cranberry Apple Popsicle.

Five cranberries, one cut in half to show the pale inside, on a pale ground — Cranberry piecesTart, bright, autumnPatagonia, Chile
Cranberries grow low on wet, peaty bogs, and ours come from southern Chile, harvested once they turn deep red. Dried in pieces, they bring a bright, tart hit that wakes the palate in our Cranberry Apple Popsicle.

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4.9 out of 5 · 214 reviews

Brewed and approved.

Customer photo from Elena: a Boteane glass teapot of amber tea beside a blue and white mug — Elena · Clapham

Customer photo from Sharla S.: tea being poured from a Boteane glass teapot into a white mug — Sharla S.

Customer photo from David: a Boteane Ice Tea Cold Brew Bottle of tea beside a tall glass of iced tea and a toy crocodile — David · London

Customer photo from Babas F.: holding up an open Boteane Discovery box of five teas, a glass teapot and a mug in front — Babas F.

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Questions

Your questions, answered

What is the Boteane tea subscription?

The Tea Discovery Subscription is Boteane’s monthly loose leaf tea subscription. Each month we choose five teas for the season outside your window: whole leaves, real fruit and flowers picked at their peak, every one tasted by our Master Tea Taster, so your box tastes of the month it arrives in. Bright and green when the light comes back. Warm and spiced when the evenings draw in.

You choose the taste (Green Tea, Caffeine-Free, Fruity Tea or Surprise Me!) and change it whenever you like. Your first box, the Welcome Box, is £29, then £22.50 a month, delivery included. It brings your Easy-peasy Teapot or Ice Tea Cold Brew Bottle, worth £32, yours to keep.

How much does the Boteane tea subscription cost?

£29 for your first box, then £22.50 on the 25th of each month. Both include UK delivery. Your first box, the Welcome Box, brings five loose leaf teas and a teapot or cold-brew bottle worth £32, yours to keep. Each box makes around 75 cups, about 30p a cup for the tea. There is no minimum term.

What teas will I get, and can I choose them?

Five loose leaf teas each month, composed by us for the box you choose and the month outside your window. Choose Surprise Me!, Green Tea, Caffeine-Free or Fruity Tea, and change it anytime from your account.

Which taste should I choose?

Choose Caffeine-Free if you would rather avoid caffeine: none of its five teas has any. Choose Fruity Tea if you want fruit first; its teas can be green, black or caffeine-free. Choose Green Tea if you want to taste the tea itself: green tea is in every one. Choose Surprise Me! for something new each time; it can include green, black and caffeine-free. Not sure? Three quick questions will suggest one, and you can change your taste anytime.

How do you choose your teas?

Refined to the top 5% of global quality standards.

We begin with place. From the high gardens of Nuwara Eliya in Sri Lanka to the Cederberg mountains of South Africa, our teas are bought only at the peak of each harvest, and only from the top 10% of the world’s growers.

Then we taste. Each lot is tasted against its standard by Master Tea Tasters when it arrives, blended in small batches, sampled every hour, and kept under vacuum so the flavour holds.

A spoonful of every batch is kept for fifteen years, so every cup can be traced to the day it was blended.

We work with our partners at the Ethical Tea Partnership and Fairtrade. Where a tea carries their mark, its card shows it.

Fair pay for the hands that pick your tea.
Safer work and better homes where it grows.

Harvest: At the peak of the season
Tasted: On arrival, then every hour of blending
Kept: A sample of every batch, fifteen years
Made to: FSSC 22000 food safety
Never: Irradiated, fumigated or genetically modified

Can I skip, pause or cancel my tea subscription?

Yes, of course, whenever you like. Simply sign in to your account to skip a month, pause, or cancel before your next charge date, and you will not be charged again.

There is no minimum term, no call to make and no one to convince.

What if I don’t like a tea in my box?

Then it is on us. Tell us within 14 days and we’ll put its value towards a tea you’d rather have.

This is our Flavour Promise. It covers one opened tea per box, up to three times in any rolling 12 months. So please do try the tea you would never have picked for yourself.

How many cups do I get, and how do I brew loose leaf tea?

Around 75 cups a box. That is five 15 to 20g pouches at about 15 cups each, and most leaves will brew a second time.

Brewing is as easy as a teabag, because every pouch tells you how long to steep. As a guide: one teaspoon per cup, water just off the boil for black and herbal teas, a little cooler for green, and three to five minutes.

Is it vegan, caffeine-free and safe for allergies?

Every box is vegan, and Caffeine-Free is one of our four boxes.

We cannot promise that any tea is free from allergens. Tree nuts, gluten, soy and sulphites are handled in the same blending room, and a few blends contain nuts. Each tea’s page lists its ingredients, with allergens in capitals.

If you have an allergy, please write to us before you join: info@boteane.co.

Can I give it as a gift?

Yes. Gift 3, 6 or 12 months, paid once. It stops when the months stop, so nothing renews on your card.

Gift 3, 6 or 12 months, paid once

The Boteane glass teapot full of ruby hibiscus tea on a brass tray beside a lit candle in a burgundy sitting room in the evening

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Tea that tastes of something again.

One of these is yours.

Surprise Me!

Fruity Tea

Green Tea

Caffeine-Free

Life’s too magnificent
for murky tea.

A whole world of flavours.

Tea, without the plastic.

Easier than it looks.

Tastes as good as it smells, or it's on us.