€3.45
This luxurious blend produces a rich, rounded character, thanks to Assam’s finest leaves picked only during peak quality periods before being vacuum-packed to preserve freshness.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!These are blended with teas from the high-grown slopes of Mount Kenya, producing a bright, full-flavoured infusion with a fresh finish.
Thompson’s Irish Breakfast has recently discovered a fan base in the United States and appropriately, the first shipment arrived safely ashore in Boston where thankfully there was no repetition of the infamous Boston Tea Party in 1773!
In 1896, from a tea warehouse near Belfast docks, our founder Robert S Thompson, trained in the art of tea tasting and soon became known for his uncompromising devotion to quality.
Since then, four generations of Thompsons’ have been blending and packing our award-winning range in Belfast for over 120 years.
As 4th generation Thompsons, we share this passion for quality and take great pride in the fact that over 1 million cups of Thompson’s Punjana are enjoyed every single day, in Northern Ireland alone.
To this day, every blend we ever produce is first tasted and then approved by a member of the Thompson family.
We are a family-owned company who are passionate about tea, and have been since our great-grandfather, Robert S. Thompson, first started blending over one hundred and twenty years ago. Our mission has always been to create the "Perfect Everyday Cuppa", a tea that has superior taste and flavour whilst representing great value for money.
We believe that we have achieved this and naturally we were thrilled, to be awarded a maximum 3 Gold Stars in the Guild of Fine Food’s "Great Taste Awards" in 2016 for our Punjana and Irish Breakfast blends.
It's quite simple really, a blend of superior quality can only be achieved by selecting teas from the finest tea gardens, and at a time when the tea bushes are producing their best growth.
So this is just what we do!
Our leaves are hand-picked when sunshine and rainfall are in perfect harmony, at a time when the leaves grow more slowly and produce a finer taste and flavour.
Ever since the beginnings of Thompson's Tea in Northern Ireland in 1896, it has been a member of the Thompson who has taste tested and approved each and every blend.
Today, we have a grand total of two tea tasters, Ross and David Thompson, who together taste and select fresh samples of tea every week from some of the most prized tea gardens in the world. We blend our teas from Assam (North India) and Kenya (East of the Rift Valley) where perfect climate and excellent soil quality produce teas of exceptional taste and flavour.
Not only that, we also time our tea purchases for when the lush green bushes are producing their best growth. Highly prized and commanding a higher price, these are the leaves which find their way into our blends. They do indeed cost more, but we will not compromise on quality!
