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Your classic Earl Grey tea. This blend uses Ceylon black tea as the base and infuses it with the classic citrus flavor of bergamot.
All about Earl Grey, Organic — Loose Leaf Black Tea
What it’s like, and how to make it
CaffeineMedium caffeine
TypeBlack
FlavourCitrus, bergamot
CharacterFloral
What’s in itCeylon black tea, bergamot
Perfect for
Beginners
Latte ready
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
Steep into cream for Earl Grey crème brûlée – the bergamot lifts the custard. Infuse into butter for shortbread that’ll ruin regular shortbread forever. Brew into a concentrate for salted caramels, panna cotta, or ice cream. Add to cake batter for bergamot-scented pound cake.
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
Bergamot loves chocolate and North African spice. Sip with dark chocolate or lemon cake. Pair with our Ras El Hanout for a Moroccan dinner – the bergamot and the spice blend were made for each other.