BLACK TEA: Lumbini Golden Breakfast, Sri Lanka

Lumbini Golden Breakfast
Black tea, Sri Lanka

Flavour: malt, wood, spice, caramel ~ full -bodied

This breakfast style tea is made with broken ‘orange pekoe’ leaves and a sprinkle of golden leaf buds, hand-harvested on 22 September 2025. 

These produce a strong, astringent and full-bodied tea with notes of malt, wood, pepper, and a hint of caramel. This tea works well alone or with milk. 

Lumbini is a Sri Lankan family-run tea company. Their gardens lie in the Lumbini Tea Valley, located high in the hills in Southern Sri Lanka, surrounded by 25,000 hectares of virgin rainforest. Lumbini’s focus on sustainable tea practices and artisan craftmanship means it produces some of the countries most exceptional teas.

Preparation: Steep for 1 - 2 minutes at 100°. Two infusions. If adding milk, increase the steep time to 3 - 4 minutes. 

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Infusions: specialty tea leaves can all be steeped at least twice, and often more, so each 3 gram serve (150 mls - a standard teacup size), will give you two cups ('infusions') if you steep the leaves twice. On the back of your pouch under 'Steep', you can find the number of infusions for your tea.

If you infuse your leaves at least twice, your pouch will give you the following cups of tea (or more if you infuse your leaves more times):

50 grams - 33 cups
100 grams - 66 cups
200 grams - 133 cups

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