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21st Century Breakfast Loose Leaf Green Tea

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£15.99
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19p per cup

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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.

Tasting Notes

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

Cost Per Cup

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

Origin

China
Japan
India

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Recommended Infusion Guide

  • Quantity

    Use 2g of tea per 150ml of water.

  • Temperature

    For the optimum experience use water between 70°C and 85°C.

  • 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.

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More infusion tips

How to infuse your tea is very personal, and these are just our recommendations based on experience. Please experiment with these variables to your heart's delight. These are our recommendations, not hard and fast rules. The most delicious tea is the one you love.

Our guide uses a standard tea cup size (150ml/5.5 oz) as a measure, please adjust the quantity of leaf accordingly for less or more water. Our whole loose leaves are of such a high quality that you can infuse our teas at least twice, and the second infusion is often better than the first, with different flavours revealed as the leaf softens. If you prefer your tea stronger, add more leaf, don’t leave it for longer (this will just make it bitter).

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.

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.

Shipping, delivery & more...

UK Shipping Information

FREE UK Tracked when you spend £30 or more

FREE UK Express - Next Day* when you spend £60 or more

UK Tracked - Two Day Tracked £3.99

UK Express - Next Day* Tracked £5.49

UK Express - Next Day* Courier from £8.49

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Returns

The Rare Tea Lady believes that our teas are some of the greatest in the world, and that our range and service are second to none.

In the isolated case that you are not completely satisfied with any tea or teaware you purchase from our website, please get in contact with our customer services team to discuss returning your order.*

In most instances we will give you a full refund of the item’s cost excluding postage. We may ask you to return the item to us. Customers in the European Union have a statutory cooling-off period of fourteen days that is not affected by this guarantee, but any tea pouches much remained sealed for this to be in effect.

*We only accept returns/refunds for tea within two months of receipt, because it is impossible for us to know if the tea has been stored correctly.

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