Provided is a packaged milk-containing tea beverage and a method for manufacturing a packaged milk-containing tea beverage that imparts sufficient perception of tea, that does not require tea leaves to be discarded after extraction, and that has excellent taste while the amount of tea used is reduced. This packaged milk-containing tea beverage contains 1-6 g of pulverized black tea leaves with respect to 1 L of beverage, and less than 8.0 mass% of milk solids in the beverage. The 50% aggregate mass particle diameter (D50) of the pulverized tea leaves is preferably 1-30 μm, and the 90% aggregate mass particle diameter (D90) is preferably 10-50 μm. The packaged milk-containing tea beverage is obtained by feeding a suitable amount of pulverized tea leaves to a liquid, preparing a milk-containing tea beverage that includes the pulverized tea leaves, and packaging the milk-containing tea beverage without solid-liquid separation.
