21st Century Breakfast
21st Century Breakfast
21st Century Breakfast
21st Century Breakfast

21st Century Breakfast Loose Leaf Green Tea

5 reviews
£14.49
(19p per cup)
646 in stock

A revolutionary new take on an English Breakfast tea – a rich, luxurious and highly delicious blend of green loose leaf teas, created to pair perfectly with a 21st Century Breakfast.

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08 November 2022
Laura R.
United Kingdom

Great morning start

This tea is an excellent start to the day. At first I thought it was too strong a flavour, then I realised I was brewing it wrong! Make sure you follow the online instructions and you'll get a lovely brew.

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31 August 2021
nicola
United Kingdom United Kingdom

The best morning cuppa

Just love this tea. I have it first thing in the morning and then keep brewing through the morning. It is great value for money too

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WB
03 July 2021
william B.
United Kingdom United Kingdom

Breakfast lunch and tea tea

I am so impressed with this new approach to green tea or perhaps a new approach to breakfast tea. This is green tea with backbone. it is get up and go green tea and totally delicious. Congratulations to Rare Tea for creating such an interesting blend.

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06 May 2021
Judith
Netherlands Netherlands

This is a revelation

I drink RTC green teas a lot, but this is something different. Thanks

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03 May 2021
Naomi

Delicious, and exactly as described

...a perfect breakfast pairing. I can see myself having this A LOT.

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Tasting Notes

A succulent, deeply complex green tea blend with buttery asparagus notes, nutty sweetness and heady floral aromas.

Quantity

Use 2g of tea per 150ml of water.

Temperature

For the optimum experience use water between 70°C (158°F) and 85°C (185°F).

Time

Infuse for 60 to 90 seconds, tasting regularly.

Infusions

You can infuse this tea at least three times.  With each careful infusion, different subtleties of flavour are revealed.  

Cost Per Cup

19p per cup based on 2g of tea per 150ml of water and 3 infusions.

Different temperatures will bring out very different flavours to this luscious blend.

We suggest trying the 21st Century Blend at 70°C, 75°C, 80°C & 85°C (158°F, 167°F, 176°F & 185°F) and find the temperature that best expressed the flavours you most enjoy. At lower temperatures it is sweeter and smoother but the higher temperatures bring out the headiest floral aromas and deep vegetal notes. Lower temperatures may require slightly longer steeping times.

Each infusion differs as you infuse the tea. For a really epicurean delight – please try making the first infusion at 70°C and leaving to steep for 90 seconds, then raise the temperature to 75°C for the second infusion, for 60 seconds, then the third infusion at 85°C for 45 seconds.

At Rare Tea we honour the best tea traditions but it is also our ambition to innovate. We don’t want to get stuck in the past, but create new traditions.

Kippers and bangers are no longer an everyday staple of our breakfast table. We have moved on with our breakfasts. Now it's time for our tea to catch up.

English Breakfast tea was invented in the 19th Century. We are long overdue a revolutionary new blend to shape our future. Not with unsustainable teabags in new guises, or laboratory created flavourings - but by bringing you the best, most delicious teas, blended for you today, not your ancestor's breakfasts.

If you enjoy an avocado on toast; an omelette with fresh asparagus; a smoked salmon bagel, scrambled eggs; poached salmon with rice and miso soup or a green juice – try our 21st Century Blend. (For a full English Breakfast fry up, we still recommend an English Breakfast tea.)

We are thoroughly committed to transparency but this is a rather secret blend. We don’t want to give the whole game away. Rare Tea has been so heavily plundered by other tea companies seeking to copy what we do (since our start in 2004), that we are keeping this invention close to our chests.

The teas come from our partner farms mentioned throughout this website. It is a blend created by our Rare Tea Lady Henrietta Lovell from fresh spring harvests from China, Japan and India.

Customer Reviews
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LR
08 November 2022
Laura R.
United Kingdom

Great morning start

This tea is an excellent start to the day. At first I thought it was too strong a flavour, then I realised I was brewing it wrong! Make sure you follow the online instructions and you'll get a lovely brew.

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N
31 August 2021
nicola
United Kingdom United Kingdom

The best morning cuppa

Just love this tea. I have it first thing in the morning and then keep brewing through the morning. It is great value for money too

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WB
03 July 2021
william B.
United Kingdom United Kingdom

Breakfast lunch and tea tea

I am so impressed with this new approach to green tea or perhaps a new approach to breakfast tea. This is green tea with backbone. it is get up and go green tea and totally delicious. Congratulations to Rare Tea for creating such an interesting blend.

Was this helpful?  0    0
J
06 May 2021
Judith
Netherlands Netherlands

This is a revelation

I drink RTC green teas a lot, but this is something different. Thanks

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N
03 May 2021
Naomi

Delicious, and exactly as described

...a perfect breakfast pairing. I can see myself having this A LOT.

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