Twinings Earl Grey Tea

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26 of 26 Ciao users found the following review helpful

jedimastergray73

I'm just trying to brew a better cuppa ... My name is Earl !
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04/11/2009

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Advantages A refreshing and delicate tea that is officially endorsed by the Earl Grey family !
Disadvantages None really ... unless you try it and don;t like the taste !

~~~ Introduction ~~~ I usually only drink tea in the mornings ... and a lovely cup of Twinings English Breakfast Tea usually does the trick. After 9.00am, it's coffee all the way to the "wee small hours" for me. Recently, however, I decided that I would start to drink less coffee and more tea so decided to try something a little different ... I tried a few different brands and flavours ... and whilst some were quite nice others tasted like I had found an odd sock under the sofa and simply added hot water !!!!! I was about to give up the quest when my other half suggested trying Earl Grey. I ... more
47 of 47 Ciao users found the following review helpful

carpathian

This tea scent me. 22/12/2001

User recommends the product

Advantages Refreshing taste of luxury
Disadvantages none

Twinings Earl Grey Tea, a brew especially blended for Earl Grey, is how Twinings describe this tea. The tea itself is a blend of fine light tea and bergamot oil, this gives a distinctive scent and flavour to the tea and compliments its taste. The challenge was to blend a tea that would always be light in colour, no matter how long it stood, yet still retain the delicate flavour of the bergamot. Twinings achieved this balanced blend to perfection and is far superior to any other maker of this tea. This blend makes an excellent iced tea because the low levels of tannin in the tea will not ... more
66 of 66 Ciao users found the following review helpful

tiggerishone

Tea Fit For An Earl 10/09/2003

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Advantages Feeling Earl (or Countess) like when drinking it, lovely delicate flavour
Disadvantages A little bit expensive

Despite my previous extolling of the virtues of Clipper tea, I remain a polygamous tea drinker. This probably has mainly to do with the vast volumes of tea that I drink: were it not for my occasional flirtations with other types (and shock horror even different brands) of tea I would have quickly become bored of my favourite brew and no doubt by now my Clipper bags would have been relegated to remaining on the supermarket shelf rather than whizzing to my house in the chauffer-driven limousine (oh okay then, the Tesco.com van) every week. So is Twinings Earl Grey just another flirtation? In a ... more
82 of 82 Ciao users found the following review helpful

jo145

Member since 03/08/2003

Reviews written: 271

Tea with the Delicate Touch!
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20/10/2006

User recommends the product

Advantages No need for milk. Less calories.
Disadvantages Might not like the flavour.

My daughter had to go on a dairy free diet, and her in laws introduced her to Earl Grey tea for a change. She left some teabags in my cupboard for when she visited and as it was years since I tried it, I "borrowed" one. My husband who had never tried it found it refreshing and admitted he had never enjoyed tea since he gave up having sugar in it - and that was many years ago! I soon finished her tub of tea bags and replaced them with Twinings Earl Grey. Earl Grey tea was named after Charles Grey. He was Prime Minister to King William IV in the early 19th century. The legend is that the Earl ... more
61 of 61 Ciao users found the following review helpful

Morgenhund

Member since 26/07/2000

Reviews written: 574

The man who got children up chimneys unstuck 24/04/2002

User recommends the product

Advantages affordable, tasty, available as caffeinated and decaffeinated
Disadvantages not as good as Demmers

When not drinking Demmers Tea (from the eponymous tea-house in Vienna), I have to make do with Twinings, which is available at my local Billa and Interspar supermarkets, although I do prefer to go to Demmers to buy their tea, and to treat myself. Earl Grey Tea is named after the person for whom the tea was blended, the Second Earl Grey, who worked tirelessly for the reform of working conditions, and is also to blame for the laws that prevent children being stuck up chimneys as much as they previously were (all this happened in the 1830s). The tea is a blend of Indian and Ceylon black teas that ... more
36 of 36 Ciao users found the following review helpful

ashford

A Mighty Fine Tea 21/12/2001

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Advantages Smooth. Refreshing.
Disadvantages A tad Expensive

If you are in London during afternoon tea time try and take a peep into the luxurious dining room of one of London's top hotels or department stores tea rooms and you are likely to see a lot of elegantly dressed old ladies. What are they doing you might be tempted ask ? The answer :they are highly likely to be oh so elegantly sipping tea from delicate bone china or porcelain tea cups,along with scones,strawberry preserves,clotted cream and finger sandwiches. The chances are also quite good that the tea they will be sipping from the fine porcelain cups will be Twinings Earl Grey Tea. You do not ... more
27 of 27 Ciao users found the following review helpful

Bryn_Pearson

Tea, Earl Grey. Hot. 03/01/2002

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Advantages quite an unusual taste
Disadvantages not to be made too strong.

I have to admit that Star trek provided my first contact (scuse the pun) with Earl Grey tea. Sad, isn't it? Captain Jean-Luc Picard drinks his, as in the title, and I just succumbed to the subliminal messages and tried some. I was pleasantly surprised. Earl Grey is a tea flavoured with bergamot, a perfume. Not everyone gets along with this, but as far as can tell, the trick is to drink your tea very weak - if you make it too strong, the bergamot becomes a touch overpowering and sickly. You can make Earl grey much as you would an ordinary tea - Twinnings provide you with nice tea bags that can ... more
48 of 48 Ciao users found the following review helpful

mumsymary

Member since 23/09/2002

Reviews written: 2066

Anyone for tea dahlings 30/08/2003

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Advantages refreshing, elegant
Disadvantages none

Twinning Earl grey tea. To me this is a summer tea an afternoon tea. At 4 o clock sitting in the garden, in the sun watching the butterflies amongst the flowers what better tea to sip than an elegant civilised tea. I have a packet of Twinninn’s Earl Grey on opening it I am met with the mild aroma fairly sweet a vaguely flowery citrus aroma. I boil the kettle and pour the water onto 1 teaspoon of tealeaves in the teapot. I leave it to brew for a 3 or 4 minutes, not long I do not like strong tea just long enough for the flavour to be released. The tealeaves get a little stuck in the spout, as ... more
25 of 25 Ciao users found the following review helpful

rsmith

Whining about Twinings? Not me! 10/10/2003

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Advantages A good flavour; easily available in most shops
Disadvantages too many floating stalks

Earl Grey is my favourite tea, and it's just about the only kind of hot drink I ever bother with. There was a time, probably around five or ten years ago, when if you asked for it in a café or restaurant you’d get completely blank looks (as you would if you asked for black tea), but it’s achieved a certain fame and popularity nowadays. For anyone who doesn’t know, however, Earl Grey is a light tea, with a pale, dark golden colour, and, most importantly, with the delicate flavouring of bergamot, a citrus flavour. It’s a flavoured tea, then, rather than a herbal tea, and ... more
22 of 22 Ciao users found the following review helpful

sledge1uk

Not the Earl, but the King 10/09/2003

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Advantages Tea for two
Disadvantages None

Sir Winston Churchill once said "Tea was more important than bullets." Obviously he wasn't referring to any particular brand or type of tea, but I wouldn't be suprised if he was referring to Twinings Earl Grey. Like Laurel and Hardy, Vic and Bob or strawberries and cream, Twinings has become synonymus with the word tea. The Twining's were originally a family of weavers from Gloucester who were forced to re-locate to London in 1684 because of the recession. The name Twining comes from the village of Twyning, which was derived from the Saxon expression for 'between two streams'. The two ... more