Details
English Breakfast M
Ingredients: Black tea
INGREDIENTS FROM: Sri Lanka / Kenya / India
REGION(S): Nuwara Eliya + Dimbula + Uva / Nandi Highlands + Kericho / Nilgiri
GROWING ALTITUDES: 4000 - 8500 feet above sea level
GRADE(S): FP (Flowery Pekoe)
MANUFACTURE TYPE(S): Orthodox (Traditional leafy)
CUP CHARACTERISTICS: A perfect breakfast tea with good body and full tea flavour notes. Coppery bright especially enticing with milk.
INFUSION: Bright with coppery orange highlights
INFORMATION:
Early in British life tea was known as a health beverage and claimed all sorts of curative powers. In the 1650's, Garway's Coffee House proclaimed that:
"Tea makes the body active and lusty. Tea is declared to be the most wholesome,
preserving perfect health until extreme Old Age"
"Tea makes the body active and lusty. Tea is declared to be the most wholesome,
preserving perfect health until extreme Old Age"