Melbourne Breakfast

Tea type
Black Flavored Blend
Ingredients
Not available
Flavors
Cream, Smooth, Tannin, Vanilla, Cocoa, Creamy, Earthy, Floral, Malty, Woody, Bourbon, Sweet, Artificial, Marshmallow, Whipped Cream, Malt, Astringent, Candy, Citrus, Toast, Honey, Tea, Bread, Chocolate, Smoke, Tannic, Caramel, Nutty
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Bulk, Loose Leaf, Sachet
Caffeine
High
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Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 15 sec 5 g 69 oz / 2052 ml

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  • “I bought this as a souvenir for my colleagues. I was expecting a really sweet vanilla tea, but this turned out to be something quite different. The vanilla was aromatic, but it was only barely...” Read full tasting note
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  • “I’m laying in bed at 9:40 am jet lagged as hell contemplating what I’m going to do today and I must admit sit around in my pjs drink tea and binge watch tv is winning right now but I know I’m...” Read full tasting note
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  • “On a recent trip to Australia (from the UK) I stumbled upon this chain of tea shops and immeditely believed I had found heaven. I ended up buying 12 of the regular sized boxes of tea to bring back...” Read full tasting note
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  • “A friend brought me this tea from his visit to Melbourne, and this is one of the most delicious breakfast teas I’ve had! The light smokiness from the yunnan is a lovely balance to the sweetness....” Read full tasting note
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From T2

Indulge and sip a smooth blend of bold, malty black tea and rich velvety vanilla.

When the winds start howling, this brew will see you through. Indulge a little with this full-bodied vanilla sweet tea – bound to keep you cosy all year ’round. Sip it up Melbourne style!

• Smooth, sweet vanilla and bold black tea.
• This tea is sealed fresh inside a compostable plastic bag packed into a colourful recyclable cardboard box. Store in a cool, dry place.
• A feel-good cup that would be perfect as a hot tea for that morning tea moment, or a relaxing tea for an afternoon pick-me-up.
• Best brewed 2-4 minutes using freshly boiled water in your favourite loose leaf tea infuser. One teaspoon per cup. Perfect on its own or with a dash of milk.
• From fruits to spices, tea leaves to herb bushes, 100% of our tea is sustainably sourced.

Ingredients: Black tea, natural and artificial vanilla flavouring

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76 Tasting Notes

15575 tasting notes

I love a straight forward vanilla black tea. It’s just so classic in the best sorta way. Simple, understated and delicious. Black tea base used here is full bodied and brisk but still lets the aromatic and everrrr so slightlyyyyy sweet notes of the vanilla come through. Almost has a mashmallow-like burnt sugar note in the finish. Yum!

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I’ve been really gravitating toward the simplicity of vanilla black teas lately. This one does have a bit of an artificial note, but not overwhelmingly so. I enjoyed this with some oat milk and sugar.

Flavors: Cocoa, Malt, Vanilla

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27 tasting notes

Wonderful vanilla tea. I keep meaning to get the T2 Madagascan Vanilla for a side-by-side comparison. Either way it’s very vanillary and great with milk.

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1216 tasting notes

Sampler Sunday! So, I decided I would use one of the teapots I got from my grandmother today, as they are larger “British style” teapots (normally I use a little 2 cup sized Japanese doubin). The instructions on this sampler packet from T2 had a very odd tea to water ratio listed compared to how I usually make my blacks, and I didn’t trust it at all, and I wanted to make it with the ratio I usually use, but I also wanted to use up the whole packet at once, and therefore needed the larger pot to hold enough water. Basically I wanted to do the 5g packet in 700ml.

Then I went to steep, and as soon as the 205F water hit the teapot, I heard a “cracking” sound and noticed an eggshell appearance on the glaze of the teapot. WELL THEN. That couldn’t be good! So I was scrambling like a mad woman just to GET THE WATER OUT, poured everything I could into my gravity well infuser with the teabag and had to dump the overflow. That infuser only holds two cups, or about 500ml. So, I guess grandma’s teapots were “decorative only”? How was I supposed to know?! They looked like completely proper teapots to me! Either that, or they are just so old they can’t handle the shock of actually being used as teapots and taking hot water anymore… in any event, the porcelain is now warped, but not completely shattered, so into storage it goes… sad. I really wanted to use them. It was sort of a sentimental thing. And the tea went back into the doubin. I have no idea what the sudden “ditching” did to the steep, either. But it suddenly went from the original 700ml down to 500ml, with the same amount of leaf and a change of vessel in between. Let’s see how this turned out…

It smells nice, at least. The last vanilla black I tried from T2 tasted like Circus Peanuts to me, and was one of the worst teas I’d tried, so I’m hoping this isn’t the same vanilla flavoring. Anything that triggers “banana” in my head is just a no-go for me. Also getting a nice malty aroma. The malty black base is coming forward fairly strongly, with a sweet bready toast flavor, making the vanilla more subtle, so I like this more than that other vanilla tea (Blue Mountain, I think it was?) already. There is a very light astringency following the sip, and the very slightest citrus note lingering beneath the malt and vanilla. However, I still think this vanilla flavoring tastes a bit odd. A little too sweet/artificial… it isn’t striking that place that makes me think of banana (maybe because it is lighter here, or the black tea taste is more prominent) but there is still something very candy-like and I’ve certainly had other vanilla black teas I’ve liked a lot more than this, that tasted more natural and blended nicer with the base. It’s a nice enough breakfast tea, but not a favorite. I’m just not jiving with their choice of vanilla flavoring, especially compared to others I’ve had.

Flavors: Artificial, Astringent, Candy, Citrus, Malt, Sweet, Toast, Vanilla

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 0 sec 5 g 17 OZ / 500 ML
Kittenna

Sad about the teapot! My first teapot, actually, got that eggshell appearance early on, though I have no recollection of it happening, just noticing it later. Unsure if there was any warping. It was a basic brown English-style (well, not asian, that’s all I can say) teapot. I wondered if it was supposed to do that, but I never used it all that much. I believe it was a new pot, but could have just been new-to-me, I don’t know (Xmas gift). And a mug I recently painted at a pottery place also has cracks in the glaze (again, didn’t hear them, just noticed them later). I wonder what’s going on? Are these vessels/glazes not made to handle boiling temp water? Maybe I should google this.

Mastress Alita

You’d think, being a teapot, it should handle boiling water! I had put water just under boiling (205F) in it since I was making a black, and I did hear it, a definite crick-crick-crick sound so I immediately got the water out, since I was scared it was going to shatter and I was not in the market to clean up glass that morning. Then I saw the eggshell look on the outside, and I think what appeared like a few bulges around the bottom? It was one of those English pots with the schmancy looking floral design, made me think very much of a “ladies teatime.” Except for the fact I don’t think I can use it for tea, since it freaked out the second I put hot water in it…

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A lovely morning tea with sweet characteristics of honey and vanilla. Possibly the best ‘beginners tea’ to give someone who is only just starting out trying tea.

Strong flavour full bodied black tea with subtle vanilla taste and scent. If you are trying to stop adding sugar to tea this is a great gateway.

I typically stay away from flavourings however the tea is just too good with it!

Flavors: Honey, Tea, Vanilla

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 30 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 250 ML

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53 tasting notes

Okay, getting a handle on this (and New York Breakfast), and finding I prefer much higher amounts of leaf than I had been using, so like a level(ish) tablespoon (a bit under 4 grams) for two infusions in my 300 ml cup, sweet and a splash of milk is delicious. I’ll definitely be getting this and New York Breakfast the next time I order from T2. Also pertinent: instead of using an infuser in my cup, I used a small teapot. The infuser is pretty big, but free floating then strained is better.

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 3 min, 0 sec 3 g 10 OZ / 300 ML

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249 tasting notes

This has a lovely vanilla/chocolate fragrance with just the faintest notes of it in the flavor. It’s brisk and lightly tannic. The vanilla gives it a sweetness but it’s not a sugary sweetness in the slightest. As another reviewer mentioned, it’s great with sweet or savory foods. The fragrance reminds me of a chocolate babka in the oven – chocolate, vanilla, sweet bread and sugar – but in a great way, not a sickly sweet way. It’s a little lighter in body than I tend to consider a breakfast tea to be, which is not a problem unless you’re really searching for a heavy solid tea. This one has a bit more brightness to it. No bitterness at all, but it is lightly tannic. There is a touch of smoke, which I probably wouldn’t have noticed had I not read other reviews. It is very light, though – I don’t tend to care for smokiness in a tea, but it’s not a problem here.

Flavors: Bread, Chocolate, Smoke, Tannic, Vanilla

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec 4 tsp 20 OZ / 591 ML

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48 tasting notes

I made this before I left for work this morning and it was absolutely delicious. The vanilla adds such a creamy edge to the black base without being too sickly sweet for a breakfast blend.

I drank this straight, without milk or sweetener, and it was perfect that way. I’m tempted to add a dash of milk next time though, just to enhance the creaminess I got from it. I can see this becoming a good friend of mine during the chilly weekday mornings leading up to Christmas.

Flavors: Creamy, Vanilla

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec 1 tsp

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2238 tasting notes

I thought I’d finished all of this at work yesterday, but then this morning I found another box lurking at the back of my cupboard. It’s fine, though. I really quite like it.

There’s lots of vanilla here, and it’s deliciously creamy and sweet, and really all of the things I’d want in a vanilla tea. It’s not entirely natural, I know, but I’m in a forgiving mood and it tastes good. That’s really all I need right now.

tea-sipper

ooo… an actual good vanilla tea?!

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308 tasting notes

As a lover of vanilla black tea blends, I was fully expecting this to be my favorite of the breakfast teas I purchased during T2’s Black Friday sale. To my surprise, it wasn’t. It’s nice enough, but it’s certainly not one of the better vanilla teas I’ve had in the past year or so. I don’t think I’ll be sipping the rest of my 100g, unless I can find something to mix it with. Life’s too short to carry on sipping teas you don’t enjoy.

Also, while I love the cute orange boxes, I loathe the way these teas are packaged. How on earth am I meant to seal these bags? I’ve just about used up my entire stash of tiny binder clips. I think I’ll just have to transfer the teas to ziploc bags. So annoying.

Flavors: Vanilla

Evol Ving Ness

Ayup, bags that are ridiculous to reseal are most annoying and will weigh in to how readily I am going to be purchasing from that blender.

apieceofquiche

Yeah, I should’ve watched YouTube videos or something. Had I known that it was going to be a chintzy plastic bag that I’d need scissors to open and binder clips to close, I would’ve thought twice about purchasing. Such a PITA.

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