Twinings Earl Grey Tea

~~~ 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

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

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

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

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