Pride of the Port

Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
Chinese Black Tea, Indian Black Tea
Flavors
Bread, Butter, Floral, Toasty, Toast
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
High
Certification
Not available
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Average preparation
Boiling 4 min, 0 sec 10 g 15 oz / 443 ml

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Pride of the Port®

Our finest blend of high-grown, whole-leaf black teas. The flavor is malty, floral, and complex.

In 1866, Joshua Lane Jordan, the great-great-grandfather of our tea buyer, set sail from Maine in the merchant ship The Pride of the Port. Sailing to ports in England, India and New Orleans, he transported commodities from America to the other side of the world and back again. When our tea buyer Eliot Jordan, set out to make a premium blend of black teas from China and India, he named it ‘Pride of the Port’ as an homage to these great tea origins – and to the long history of trade in tea.

Pride of the Port has been a Peet’s favorite for 10 years and we consider it our signature blend. Malty, floral, sweet and full-bodied, it’s a tea that you’ll always find something new in, yet you can always rely on for a rich and satisfying cup.

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Mighty Leaf Tea was born for the sole purpose of infusing life into an ancient indulgence by creating tea products that reach new heights of quality and innovation. Our passion is creating the most incredible handcrafted tea blends found anywhere, globally sourcing the finest ingredients available. Paralleling the highest standards of quality at Mighty Leaf Tea is ongoing creative innovation.

31 Tasting Notes

90
737 tasting notes

I absolutely adore this one. It’s VERY bready, which makes it perfect as a breakfast tea. It has the smoothness of Chinese black tea with the robust flavor of Indian black tea. Steeps a gorgeous ruddy brown color and mixes famously with skim milk. Floral notes in addition to bread/ toast notes.

Flavors: Bread, Butter, Floral, Toasty

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 0 sec 2 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML
Fjellrev

Sounds delicious.

teaqueen

It’s like the most perfectly blended breakfast tea. Would probably go very well with hot buttered toast or scones!

Fjellrev

Oh, I like that image! Haha.

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78
333 tasting notes

Ah, it’s been a long time since I’ve made a proper tasting note here, isn’t it? Hopefully things will get more settled town toward the end of the year, and I’ll be able to take it slow with a cup of tea more often.

I had this yesterday at Peet’s, where I was happy to see that they had a drawer of many loose leaf and sachet tea options. I think I let my cup oversteep a bit while working on something. While some subtleties may have been lost, it was still a good, solid malty black tea. The malt quality really announces itself with every sip. It’s very rich and robust, and a good pick-me-up on an uncommonly cool afternoon (which Southern California has really needed!)

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85
20 tasting notes

This might have Darjeeling in it, maybe Keemun?. The leaves were broken, large thin pieces with significant green hues. A little smoky, a little dusty; the package says floral and malty.

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 30 sec 14 g 24 OZ / 709 ML

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81
17 tasting notes

Tastes almost too good for a strong breakfast blend. My new favorite blend for breakfast. Gonna take my upton irish breakfast to work for caffeine and keep this one for my mornings. Need to compare this with the lose leaf twinning irish breakfast to finally decide the best breakfast for me.

Preparation
1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML

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73
7 tasting notes

This was a great tea but somewhat sensitive to over brewing. I recommend brewing it at a lower temperature than what the packages lists.

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16 tasting notes

I didn’t like this tea. The description sounded good, but it had fruity notes, not fruit flavor, but notes and I just didn’t like it. I think I just prefer darker black teas.

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 45 sec

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89
8 tasting notes

This is one of my favorite teas, introduced to me by a friend who bought me some when I had a tea party. It is close to an assam tea but has flavors that come out very well when drunk with milk, and I love black tea with milk. You should steep it well, and after a couple of months it becomes just a dark black tea.

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 4 min, 0 sec

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68
3 tasting notes

A very solid, medium-body tea. I came to Pride of the Port with high expectations, and was a bit disappointed at first – not as rich a cup as I thought I might get. Over time, though, my appreciation for Pride has grown, and I find that it is a fine breakfast tea.

Preparation
4 min, 0 sec

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60
48 tasting notes

Good tea but I have had better breakfast teas that are significantly cheaper too.

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75
44 tasting notes

My first experimenting tea from Peets, and it definitely did not let down; The flavor was good, but the aftertaste was slightly dry…I think.

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