Tea shops · Launceston, Australia
Tea shops · Launceston, AustraliaThe Tea Equation
A Tasmanian family blender with a cellar door in Prospect, where every loose-leaf pouch, breakfast, oolong, green or chai, costs A$ 14 for 50 g.
One price for the whole list and botanicals from the Huon Valley in the blends: a Tasmanian tea company that treats its teas the way the island's cider makers treat a cellar door.
The Tea Equation is a Tasmanian family tea blender. Its site says the blends are hand-blended and packed in Tasmania with botanicals from the Huon Valley, organic where possible, and describes a retail space in Launceston with loose-leaf blends and gift boxes. The cellar door is at 49 Meander Valley Road in Prospect, a suburb on the south-western edge of the city, open Monday to Friday 9:00–17:00 and, at the time of writing, closed at weekends. The teas also travel: the stockist list covers grocers, markets and cafés across Tasmania, and the webshop ships the same pouches.
The pricing could not be simpler. Every tea is A$ 14 for a 50 g loose-leaf pouch, A$ 35 for 200 g and A$ 15 for a pack of 20 teabags. The black side of the list is the Tasmanian Breakfast, the Tasmanian Earl Grey and a straight Assam; the green side is the Tasmanian Green and a Green Jasmine; in between sits the Tasmanian Oolong, and the caffeine-free end holds Peppermint, Chamomile and the Classic Chai, a black tea base with the house spices.
The blends are sold in town too. The Spotted Quoll on Quadrant Mall stocks the loose-leaf pouches and teabags, with the Tasmanian Oolong at A$ 24.95 for 50 g, and the company's own stockist page lists Launceston grocers among the shops that carry the range. For the full list and the cellar-door price, Prospect is the place; for a single pouch between errands, the city centre will do.
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Where it is
Cellar door, Prospect
49 Meander Valley Road, Prospect, Launceston TAS 7250
Hours: Mon–Fri 9:00–17:00 · closed weekends
What to buy here
English Breakfast
Tasmanian Breakfast, 50 g loose leaf
from A$ 14 · 50 g
The Tasmanian Breakfast, the house black blend, in 50 g and 200 g pouches and in 20-bag packs. The place to start on the list and the pouch that defines the house.
See our page on this tea →Sencha
Tasmanian Green Tea, 50 g loose leaf
from A$ 14 · 50 g
The Tasmanian Green, a green tea blended with the company's Huon Valley botanicals, in 50 g, 200 g and 20 bags. The pouch that shows what the blender does with a green base.
See our page on this tea →Masala Chai
Tasmanian Classic Chai, 50 g loose leaf
from A$ 14 · 50 g
The Classic Chai, black tea with the house spice mix, in 50 g, 200 g and 20 bags. Made for milk and a saucepan; the one blend on the list that is better bought in the 200 g pouch.
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The one worth the trip
Tasmanian Oolong, 50 g loose leaf
from A$ 14 · 50 g
The Tasmanian Oolong, an oolong base blended on the island and sold at the cellar door for A$ 14 the 50 g pouch, while the same pouch costs A$ 24.95 in the city centre. An oolong blended in Tasmania is the one thing on this list that no other shop in Launceston makes.
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| Tea | Type | Price | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tasmanian Breakfast, 50 g loose leaf | Black tea | from A$ 14 | 50 g |
| Tasmanian Earl Grey, 50 g loose leaf | Black tea | from A$ 14 | 50 g |
| Assam, 50 g loose leaf | Black tea | from A$ 14 | 50 g |
| Tasmanian Oolong, 50 g loose leaf | Oolong tea | from A$ 14 | 50 g |
| Tasmanian Green Tea, 50 g loose leaf | Green tea | from A$ 14 | 50 g |
| Tasmanian Green Jasmine, 50 g loose leaf | Green tea | from A$ 14 | 50 g |
| Peppermint, 50 g loose leaf | Herbal infusion | from A$ 14 | 50 g |
| Chamomile, 50 g loose leaf | Herbal infusion | from A$ 14 | 50 g |
| Tasmanian Classic Chai, 50 g loose leaf | Chai | from A$ 14 | 50 g |
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