From humble beginnings, the Art of Tea began selling just 12 different varieties of tea at Salamanca Market, in Hobart, Tasmania every Saturday. The business quickly grew, as locals and people travelling from all over Australia and beyond were keen to enjoy quality loose leaf tea.

The Art of Tea now has over 150 tea & herbal varieties available! We have a wide range of the well-loved classic black teas. With best selling breakfast teas, as well as single estate black teas from Sri Lanka, India and also Australia tea growers. Our smokey Lapsang Souchong remains a firm favourite. Our Chai tea selection and flavoured black teas remain popular year in and year out, and our Mount Wellington Tea named after our local mountain kunanyi is a delightful addition to every pantry. Did you know that we stock Tasmanian grown teas? From the most southerly tea plantation in Australia, and indeed the world we love the Tasmanian grown teas. Read our article on “Can tea grow in Tasmania?” here

As Art of Tea began at Salamanca Market we have our best selling flavoured green tea named after this famous Market. We are currently taking a break from our weekly market stall but all your favourite teas are available here online or at our Kingston Shop. We love to chat with locals and tourists who visit our shop in Kingston and help customers choose teas for enjoyment and also health benefits like sleep and weight loss. Not to mention we stock a range of Tasmanian grown teas, and Australian teas that we use in blends.

If you live locally you can also bring your clean tea caddy in for a refill. We love to reduce the use of packaging by filling your special tea tins, or we can reuse your bulk bag too.

We love having a chat with people about green tea, black tea, rooibos and our herbal tisanes, but we know not everyone can make it to Tasmania so we have made shopping easy and online here, and we can send you all your favourites teas Australia-wide.

The Art of Tea is also a supplier of our uniquely packaged, quality loose leaf, teas to cafes, restaurants, providores, & hamper businesses. If you are a wholesale customer and want to get in touch, click here

At the Art of Tea, we are passionate about improving health and wellbeing. As such we seek the highest quality ingredients. In 2019 we switched to organically sourced ingredients for the herbal blends.

We know that many people are seeking to understand caffeine in green and black tea and also caffeine-free tea, read our article here 

Rooibos (South African red bush pronounced roy-boss) is increasingly popular, as it is naturally caffeine free, packed with antioxidants, low in tannins, and has other health benefits.  We see red as the new black and encourage our customers to try rooibos. This is a great choice for children or people sensitive to caffeine. See our article on rooibos here

Keen to see Tasmanians and visitors enjoy a decent cup of tea wherever they travel a great number of Tasmanian cafes and restaurants are serving our tea. Thank goodness you say, when you see that you will be served a good pot of tea!

All of our teas are hand packed with care and we are confident that each box of tea goes out to the customer beautifully packaged and ready to be enjoyed!

Here is Samantha, the Art of Tea owner since 2007 enjoying a cup of Russian Caravan on kunanyi/Mount Wellington in winter. If you would like to know more about Samantha’s story click here

Who we support

The Art of Tea has supported our local Bonorong Wildlife sanctuary for over 15 years. In 2022 we also added projects from the international organisation Business for Good to support endangered Australian wildlife and people internationally in need, such as in Ukraine and India. Read more about the support we offer here.