India Breakfast Blend

All the highlights of India's great tea regions in a smooth flavourful blend. We include fragrant 1st flush Darjeelings, hearty 2nd flush Assams and brisk January Nilgiris to make a superb brew for breakfast or any other time of the day. The blend is comprised of luxury teas from no less than three of India's premiere growing districts: Assam far up in the north eastern corner of the country served as the starting point of the Burma Road during WWII and was the first place tea was grown by the British within their old Empire. Darjeeling, located high in the Himalayas is the site of one of India's remaining steam trains survived a major earthquake in 1898 the "Darjeeling disaster"and gained a reputation for growing some of the world's best black teas grown on hybrid bushes developed on its steep slopes. The Nilgiri Hills were first discovered by Europeans in 1602 were first fully explored after a pursuit of criminals and is the origin of the world's most expensive lot of tea $600/ kg earned at North America's first auction held at Las Vegas in 2006. This flawless blend unites teas from all three regions sourced at their respective seasonal peaks.

Please note: In order to become more environmentally-friendly we no longer add large coloured labels to our tea packets. Simply peel off the small name label from the back of your packet to make it totally biodegradable! Gift tubes are as shown.