Dubliners Luxury Irish Breakfast Loose Leaf Black Tea

🍵 The Blend — Seasonal second flush Assam and Spring Kenyan teas, selected at peak quality for a bold, full-bodied Irish breakfast with genuine depth and character

🍵 The Colour — A deep, burnished copper brew, richly dark and visually striking, brightening beautifully with a splash of milk

🍵 The Character — Powerfully malty with a gripping, drying astringency from the Assam, lifted by complex floral notes and brightness from the Kenyan leaf

🍵 The Cup — Built for those who want their morning tea to mean something — robust enough to hold its own with milk and as rewarding at midday as it is at breakfast

Ireland drinks more tea per capita than almost any other country on earth, and this is the kind of tea that explains why. Dubliners Luxury Irish Breakfast is a premium loose leaf black tea blend built around the same principle that has guided Ireland's great tea blenders for generations: buy the finest seasonal leaf from Assam and Kenya, and let the quality speak for itself.

The Assam component comes from second flush production — the June harvest, a period of strong, sustained growth that yields leaf of exceptional body and depth. It is the element that gives this blend its defining character: a rich, intensely malty flavour with layers of drying astringency that grip the palate, the kind of bold cup that feels almost chewable in the very best sense. If you have ever found an English Breakfast a little polite for your tastes, this is the blend made for you.

The Kenyan teas are sourced from the most prized seasonal windows — the Spring flush, when East Africa's high-altitude gardens produce leaf of remarkable flavour. In the cup they provide a vivid, coppery brightness and a layer of floral complexity that prevents the blend from ever feeling flat or one-dimensional. The interplay between the grounding malt of the Assam and the lifted, almost luminous quality of the Kenyan leaf is what sets a truly well-made Irish breakfast apart.

The result is a tea of real authority — full-bodied, deeply coloured, and wholly satisfying. It takes milk beautifully, as great Irish breakfast teas always do; a splash softens the tannins and brings out the malty warmth beneath. Equally, those who prefer their black tea without milk will find enough complexity here to reward that choice.

Since 2008, High Teas London has been one of the country's leading independent tea specialists. With over 350 teas and infusions — one of the largest collections in the country — we have spent nearly two decades seeking out teas with genuine character and provenance, and Dubliners is very much part of that tradition.

Ingredients: Black tea (Assam, Kenya).

Brewing Note: Use freshly drawn, fully boiling water — Irish breakfast tea is built for the full 100°C and needs nothing less. Measure a well-heaped teaspoon per cup and steep for four to five minutes, or longer if you prefer your tea on the stronger side; the blend is robust enough to take it. If drinking with milk, add it after the tea has been poured — this lets you judge the strength before adjusting. The leaves will not reward re-steeping in the way that a whole-leaf oolong might, so brew fresh each time and give it the full steeping time it deserves.