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Earl Grey Blue Flower takes the classic flavor of bergamot and adds a layer of complexity with blue flower for a citrusy, smooth blend.
All about Earl Grey Blue Flower, Organic — Loose Leaf Black Tea
What it’s like, and how to make it
CaffeineMedium caffeine
TypeBlack
FlavourCitrus, bergamot
CharacterSmooth, floral
What’s in itCeylon black tea, bergamot, cornflowers, blue mallow flowers
Perfect for
High tea
How to brew it
212°F / 100°C
Steep 3–5 minutes
Use 1 tsp per 8oz
Past five minutes it turns bitter
Takes milk better than any other leaf
Beyond the cup
Same bergamot magic as classic Earl Grey with added floral notes. Steep into cream for a gorgeous lavender-blue panna cotta. Beautiful as a tea-infused simple syrup for cocktails – the color is a bonus.
What’s in it
Every herb in the blend, and where to read about it on its own.
Bright, brisk and citrus-edged, with a golden-orange cup — the tea that makes a blend taste lively rather than heavy. Sri Lanka's tea board recognises seven growing regions, and altitude does most of the work: Nuwara Eliya at 1,868 m gives the palest and most...
Bright, brisk and citrusy; golden-orange in the cup, with a clean finish
The oil pressed from the skin of a sour citrus fruit, and the single thing that makes Earl Grey Earl Grey. Nine products here carry it. Bergamot is not a flavour that exists in nature elsewhere — it is floral and citrus at once, more...
Floral and citrus at once — closer to perfume than to fruit, with a clean bitter edge
The blue in your tea. Cornflower petals are in eighteen products here and they are there to be looked at: the pigment, protocyanin, is one of the few真 blues in the botanical world, and it survives drying where almost nothing else blue does. They contribute...
Almost nothing — a faint clove-like sweetness at most. It is in the blend for the blue
Reddish-purple petals with dark stripes that do something no other ingredient in this shop does: brewed on their own they give a blue-violet cup, and the colour shifts when you add something acid. That is not a trick — the flowers' pigment is pH-sensitive enough...
Very mild and faintly sweet, with a soft, slightly slippery body from the plant's mucilage
I love ordering from this store - it arrives well packaged and as ordered. The earl grey with blue flowers is something I regularl…
I love ordering from this store - it arrives well packaged and as ordered. The earl grey with blue flowers is something I regularly get. It's a fragrant earl grey and the tea quality is really good.
I love ordering from this store - it arrives well packaged and as ordered. The earl grey with blue flowers is something I regularl…
I love ordering from this store - it arrives well packaged and as ordered. The earl grey with blue flowers is something I regularly get. It's a fragrant earl grey and the tea quality is really good.
I love ordering from this store - it arrives well packaged and as ordered. The earl grey with blue flowers is something I regularl…
I love ordering from this store - it arrives well packaged and as ordered. The earl grey with blue flowers is something I regularly get. It's a fragrant earl grey and the tea quality is really good.
I love ordering from this store - it arrives well packaged and as ordered. The earl grey with blue flowers is something I regularl…
I love ordering from this store - it arrives well packaged and as ordered. The earl grey with blue flowers is something I regularly get. It's a fragrant earl grey and the tea quality is really good.