Whether you’re warming up from the wintry weather or celebrating holiday festivities with family and friends, December is the most wonderful time of the year to wrap your hands around a cozy cup of tea! Navigating the wide world of tea isn’t easy—we want to help guide your exploration. That's why each month our tea experts put together a list of new arrivals we're excited to sip. Read on to discover December's New + Sippable Teas.
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Sweet & Floral
Marzipan Walnut Rose Black Tea
Sips by Mark T. Wendell Tea Company
Why you’ll love this tea
This unique black tea is a blend of select China Congou black tea, marzipan pieces, bits of rose, and a mix of nuts. This sweet-tasting and fragrant marzipan rose tea evokes a comforting coziness.
Why you’ll love this brand
As one of the country’s oldest and storied fine tea importers & suppliers, the Mark T. Wendell Tea Company has been serving tea enthusiasts for over 118 years. Their philosophy is to select and purchase only the highest quality whole leaf teas from tea gardens and tea importers located around the world and to offer them to tea enthusiasts with a distinct focus on each customer’s satisfaction.
Shop NowApple Pie Oolong
Sips by Monsoon Tea
Why you’ll love this tea
Apple Pie Oolong brings together a lightly mature fruity oolong tea with vanilla, cinnamon, and apple to produce a golden color infusion.
Why you’ll love this brand
Monsoon Tea Company is a model to the world to protect millions of hectares of forest by growing tea in harmony with the trees and biodiversity, without the use of deforestation. By doing this, they put a higher value on keeping the forest to the farmers and local communities. By protecting the forest, they keep a natural ecosystem alive to provide quality air to breathe, soil for future sustainable agriculture and a home for local communities. This is what Monsoon Tea Company calls “forest-friendly tea.”
Shop NowMetropolitan
Sips by August Uncommon
Why you’ll love this tea
If you’re an Earl Grey fan, you’ll love Metropolitan. It’s a sophisticated spin on the classic black tea with bergamot. Whole cloves and plum pieces were added to create a new level of delicious complexity.
Why you’ll love this brand
From dark and boozy, to bright and dreamy, August is like no tea you’ve ever tasted. Their tea is wild, intense, and radically different. • Only Original Blends. • Bold, Intense Flavor. • The Best Ingredients.
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Holy-Log
Sips by Um'licious Me
Why you’ll love this tea
Holy-Log is a delicate combination of holy basil and black tea with all the health benefits of cinnamon and ginger to make this lightly spiced cup of joy.
Why you’ll love this brand
Um'Licious Me is a female and Black-owned company based in Los Angeles, CA with the mission to bring customers tasty, healthy, and guiltless pleasures in the form of tea and coffee. Born from a love of tea as a beverage and recipe ingredient, they carry a variety of premium loose leaf tea blends, herbal coffee, and flavored coffee beans. Join them on a journey to a cup of joy!
Shop NowMasala Chai
Sips by Sipping Streams
Why you’ll love this tea
Masala Chai is a traditional Indian beverage that literally translates to “mixed spice tea.” The drink varies from region to region and even from family to family, each guarding their recipe often passed down through generations.
Why you’ll love this brand
Sipping Streams Tea Company specializes in high-quality loose leaf tea and tea education. Every blend is handcrafted and curated to be unique and fresh. Sourcing directly from all over the world, customers appreciate the significant quality difference. They emphasize the importance of sustainability through their packaging, especially with their non-GMO compostable pyramid tea sachets.
Shop NowMezclado de Mate
Sips by Davidson's Organic Teas
Why you’ll love this tea
Davidson's Mezclado de Mate loose leaf tea is a robust, earthy brew with spicy citrus top notes.
Why you’ll love this brand
Based in Reno, Nevada for over 40 years, Davidson's Organic Teas is a third-generation, farm-to-cup tea company that prides itself on offering healthful, organic, high quality teas, herbs and spices. The family-owned company operates nearly a dozen bio-dynamic, organic tea gardens in Darjeeling, India. That means that Davidson's grows, imports, blends, and packages their own tea.
Shop NowPeppermint Patty
Choco-Mint Bliss
Sips by Sis Got Tea
Why you’ll love this tea
Peppermint mocha season is now 365 days per year. With a smooth combination of chocolate, peppermint, and vanilla, this tea is an instant cup of coziness. And add in the bite of aged pu-erh tea? It's a game-changer.
Why you’ll love this brand
Sis Got Tea is Louisville, KY's one and only Black-owned, queer-owned, woman-owned tea business. They have a blend for everybody: from savory, to spicy, to earthy, to floral. Sis Got Tea: Black Brewed. Queer Approved.
Shop NowAlfalfa Mint
Sips by TeaFèy Infusions
Why you’ll love this tea
A nutritive blend with sweet and energizing notes for a light and flavorful cup. Alfalfa gently detoxifies while spearmint and peppermint open the senses, offering a bright cup of goodness.
Why you’ll love this brand
It all began with a simple intention, “Enjoy your tea”. Every cup should enliven the senses, balance the body, and promote a healing space from within. TeaFèy Infusions strives to layer color, aroma and flavor to weave together a tapestry of taste that opens the palate into pleasant awareness. TeaFèy Infusions founder Walda Laurenceau is so excited to share a cup of tea with you!
Shop NowChocolate Matcha
Sips by 3 Leaf Tea
Why you’ll love this tea
A chocolate lover's perfect pairing! Delicately sweet with a smooth cacao flavor, this matcha is the perfect pick-me-up. A great flavor for mixing with other matcha (chocolate raspberry matcha, anyone?), and blended with zero sugar.
Why you’ll love this brand
Based in Auburn, New York, 3 Leaf Tea was founded by Luciana Torres and specializes in a variety of types and flavors of matcha. 3 Leaf Tea imports their matcha direct from farms in Japan, and flavors all their blends without any added sugar or fillers. Having a direct relationship with farmers in Japan helps them provide you with the highest quality and freshest matcha.
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Discover a delightful array of new tea arrivals and the latest teaware every month!
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About Sips by: We’re a female-founded and led startup that makes discovering tea fun, personalized, and affordable. The Sips by Box is the only multi-brand, personalized tea subscription box. Each month, we match tea drinkers across the U.S. with delicious teas from over 150 global tea brands that we’re sure they’ll love. Based out of Austin, Texas, we are adept at savoring a hot mug even when it’s seasonally inappropriate.
