English Tea Shop: Organic Earl Grey

 

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Christmas was a long time ago now, in fact we are scarily headed towards Easter! But, last Christmas I was incredibly lucky to have been given several tea related gifts. One of those gifts was a wonderful selection box from my brothers lovely partner, Michelle. The box set was from The English Tea Shop and featured a great selection of black and green and fruit tea's. 

Naturally, being a Earl Grey obsessive it was one of the first tea's I tried and I was very impressed.

The main thing that I love about Earl Grey is no blend tastes the same. So when you try a new Earl Grey it's like your trying it for the first time.  Earl Grey is one of those blends I genuinely become excited by! No surprise then that I drunk most of my supply on Boxing Day but thankfully I have kept back one or two sachets which I found this morning.

The English Tea Shop's wonderful Organic Earl Grey is quite different from a lot of Earl Grey's that I have tried. 

I absolutely love the lightness to this tea. By lightness I mean the added bergamot which provides Earl Grey with it's famous taste, is subtle. It's there, and certainly easy to detect, but it's not overpowering. It doesn't that that perfume type element that some cheaper Earl Grey's can have. So, you get that lovely flavour, but without the cloying, overpowering scent which is extremely off putting. 

For me though, the real beauty to this tea is that English Tea Shop have used a high quality Ceylon tea as the base tea and it's really lovely. Due to the superb, subtle flavour of the bergamot you can enjoy the taste of the Ceylon tea and it's just lovely. It has a gentle sweetness to it, it's smooth and easy to drink and is a very refreshing cup of Earl Grey.

This was the first tea I've tried from English Tea Shop and I'm really impressed and cannot wait to try their pure green tea and tropical green tea. If the standard of these tea's match up to the standard of the Earl Grey then I'm certainly in for a treat!

As a genuine Earl Grey lover, that has Earl Grey running through my veins, I give this blend a huge thumbs up. I'm really impressed. And I'm sure you will be too!