Tea shops · Auckland, New Zealand
Tea shops · Auckland, New ZealandTeatera
A private Chinese tea studio in Mount Roskill, visited by booking, whose sommelier sources single-origin leaf directly from the mountains of China.
This is not a shop you walk into. You book an hour, sit with the sommelier, and leave with the 50 g you already know you like.
Teatera is a tea studio at 369 Mt Albert Road in Mount Roskill, and its own site calls it a private one: bookings are required for tastings and sessions, available every day from 10:30 in the morning to 10 at night, and no walk-in shop hours are published. Yue, the tea sommelier, personally visits tea mountains and valleys across China to select leaf among the six main types, green, yellow, white, oolong, black and dark, and the name comes from terra, the earth that feeds each leaf.
A session costs NZ$ 20 per person per hour, or NZ$ 58 for a private tea room whose first hour includes tea and pastries, and the studio also sells incense and teaware and takes part in cultural events around the city, from a Tea for Harmony afternoon with the China Cultural Center in Auckland to market days in Northcote and at the university. The shop online carries Chinese teas only, most of them in 50 g: a Keemun Golden Needle, a Huangshan Maofeng and a Phoenix dancong Mi Lan Xiang at NZ$ 45 each.
The rest of the list is where the studio earns its place on this page: a Huoshan yellow tea at NZ$ 35 the 50 g, a category almost no Auckland shop stocks, a Taiping Houkui in a 125 g pack at NZ$ 68, and an Anhua dark tea sold in a 10 g pack at NZ$ 10, the smallest and cheapest step into a family of tea most people have never tried. Several Wuyi rock teas and a Lapsang were only available in single-serve sachets on the day we read the prices. Orders over NZ$ 98 ship free anywhere in New Zealand.
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Where it is
Mount Roskill tea studio
369 Mt Albert Road, Mount Roskill, Auckland
Hours: By booking only, Mon–Sun 10:30am–10pm
What to buy here
Huoshan Huang Ya
Huoshan Yellow Tea
from NZ$ 35 · 50 g
A Huoshan yellow tea in 50 g: yellow tea takes an extra slow step almost nobody bothers with, and this is the only one on any Auckland page.
See our page on this tea →Keemun
Golden Needle - Keemun Black Tea
NZ$ 45 · 50 g
A Keemun made from golden needle buds, the black tea of the studio, in its only size of 50 g.
See our page on this tea →Fu Zhuan
Anhua Dark Tea
from NZ$ 10 · 10 g
An Anhua dark tea in a 10 g pack for ten dollars: the cheapest way anywhere in the city to try a post-fermented tea before buying a brick.
See our page on this tea →
The one worth the trip
Phoenix Dancong - Mi Lan Xiang (Honey Orchid Aroma)
NZ$ 45 · 50 g
A Phoenix dancong Mi Lan Xiang, the honey-orchid oolong from the Fenghuang mountains, sourced by someone who went there. Book the hour, have it brewed gongfu style in the studio, and the 50 g pack you take home will taste of the session rather than of the label.
See our page on this tea →Every price we read, one by one
List prices read on the shop's own product pages. Open a tea to see who else sells it.
| Tea | Type | Price | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anhua Dark Tea | Dark tea | from NZ$ 10 | 10 g |
| Huoshan Yellow Tea | Yellow tea | from NZ$ 35 | 50 g |
| Golden Needle - Keemun Black Tea | Black tea | NZ$ 45 | 50 g |
| HuangShan MaoFeng - Green Tea | Green tea | from NZ$ 45 | 50 g |
| Phoenix Dancong - Mi Lan Xiang (Honey Orchid Aroma) | Oolong tea | NZ$ 45 | 50 g |
| Taiping Houkui | Green tea | NZ$ 68 | 125 g |
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Prices checked by us on Sep 12, 2026; they may change. No shop pays to appear here.