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EARL GREY is said to be the origin of all flavored teas, and this is our orthodox blend made with Keemun tea. Try with a slice of orange for an elegant tea time. A great companion to baked sweets, it’s delicious straight or with milk.
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To me, “Earl Grey” has always meant mediocrity – I thought of it as the boring, bitter, miserable stuff of cheap complimentary teabags. Then, I smelled Lupicia’s take on it…
The aroma hits you like a truck out of the tin, pure fresh bergamot – absolutely love at first smell. Tin sold. When brewed, the bergamot explosion mellows out to allow the smoky smooth keemun base to take the lead. Unlike the terrible greys I have had in the past, the bergamot is fresh, complex, fruity and multilayered, the kind of quality I’ve come to expect from Lupicia. No “someone sprinkled citric acid on some Lipton” here.
I don’t know that I would call myself a fan of Earl Grey just yet, but I am most certainly a fan of Lupicia’s take on it. Fresh, complex, energizing and pure quality.
I like this Earl Grey. Two things to note: the form bought in teabags in definitely the best I’ve tried; they currently hang out in a tiny tin in my travel bag for drinking on trains. The loose form is auditioning for a place in my cupboard as my Earl Grey staple.
Thanks to tea-sipper for allowing me to continue my Earl grey obsession. I must be really used to the weak decaf versions I usually drink because this was quite brisk. I had to add more sugar and milk than I’m used to. Hot, I tasted mostly the brisk tea flavor with the bergamot following in the aftertaste. Cold, the bergamot shows up a lot more, and the black tea smooths out. I suppose I’ll drink my next cup cold! Not one of my favorite earls, but it was solid. Nice bergamot.
Sampler Sunday! I’m having a migraine today, and after sipping down my White Thunder (a white mint tea) this morning, I decided to try what my doctor suggested and pair pain medication with caffeine this afternoon. Caffeine has never really affected my migraines one way or the other (it’s not a trigger, and has never really helped with vasoconstriction, either) but he thinks during the attack it could help get my pain medication to respond quicker. I’m having major problems getting triptans, the only real abortive therapy out there for migraines, to do anything for me lately.
So, this freebie teabag of Earl Grey from Lupicia. The dry leaf has a strong citrusy scent that reminds me of grapefruit. I probably steeped it a bit longer than I usually steep black teas, so I expect this to be a bit more astringent/stronger than usual and than I typically prefer, but the idea was to try to get a pretty caffeinated cup. It was a nice reddish-brown color and still strongly citrus in aroma.
Surprisingly, the tea itself is pretty smooth, and even has a bit of a malty aroma beneath the strong citrus of the bergamot. The bergamot in this Earl Grey is pretty strong, and I usually prefer bergamot on the lighter side, but I am not finding this unpleasant. The bergamot has a strong lime note to it, with a touch of a tangy lemon zest. It’s hard to pick out the flavors of the black tea beneath the strong bergamot, but I’m getting a bit of malt and molasses. Overall it’s a fairly nice cup for a plain EG.
Flavors: Bergamot, Citrus, Lemon Zest, Lime, Malt, Molasses
Yeah, my dad would get headaches if he didn’t have his coffee every day for a while there, until he stopped drinking coffee. He would NEVER get headaches otherwise.
My dad is that way too. He always have caffeine every morning at the same time so if he doesn’t the loss of the vasoconstriction effect will give him a headache (since the blood vessels then dilate and that hurts). Once the body adjusts to that, it goes away, hense a “caffeine detox” period. A long time ago I already did the “detox completely off of caffeine” thing, which is actually when I went onto tea (herbals) because I still needed a “warm beverage” in the mornings to ease the transition. After I was “detoxed” for two months (long after the “caffeine headache” period could be a factor) I was told to try caffeine again to see if it was a “trigger” for me. (Since caffeine is a vasoconstrictor, it is one of those foods that can be a migraine trigger for some, or help relieve pain for others, as dilation of blood vessels occurs during attacks). Nope. Did not cause me to get migraines. On the flip side, it didn’t do anything to provide me relief during attacks, either. Essentially, it was just a wash for me. So I was able to reintroduce it in my diet after I’d detoxed off it, and at that point I started trying out caffeinated teas and not just herbals. So I’m not on it as heavily as I was before. I used to drink coffee every morning before the “detox” period, now I have tea instead which is lower in caffeine than coffee, and I don’t necessarily have caffeinated teas on all days (though I usually do have teas with caffeine in the mornings and herbals in the evenings).
Caffeine is weird. It’s sad though, because so many of your notes start with a migraine, so it obviously has a crazy impact on your day (or days). I hope you find something that helps you eventually.
The medication I’m on now (CGRP antagonists, an injectable taken once a month) dropped my migraines from 15 a month to around 7 a month, which was huge. But there is no cure for chronic migraine. Like most chronic pain you just learn to live with it to the best of your ability!
That does sound a little better! That’s good.
I had high hopes for this one. I love the bergamot on the Earl Grey Chocolate and I thought this couldn’t go wrong with a keemun base. It’s hard to tell the base is keemun here, especially with such a light brew. I’m just simply not a fan of the bergamot used in this one. It’s sadly the bergamot I don’t like at all, though tough to describe (so I’ll just keep repeating that I don’t like it?) It’s also very drying to the mouth. Not my bergamot, not my blend! I’m picky with bergamot. If it works, it’s amazing. When it doesn’t work, it really doesn’t work. On to the sale list this goes.
Steep #1 // 1heaping teaspoon for a full mug// 16 minutes after boiling // 2 minute steep
Steep #2 // just boiled // 4 minute steep
To me, bergamot can range from being more citrusy to being more floral. I tend to prefer the citrusy sort.
I wondered why there some earl greys that I like and others I don’t. It’s gotta be the citrusy vs floral because I don’t care for too floral teas.
Yeah, if bergamot goes a bit too far into the aromatic floral end of the spectrum, it can taste a bit like perfume to me…
I probably like both citrus AND floral bergamot…. but this one… TO ME tastes like mosquito spray, and that I just can not do.
I’ve had this tea for a while, a number of years, but I’m not sure exactly how long. I bought it thinking it was the Breakfast EG that I had a sample of. When I realized I picked up the wrong EG I went back, got the other and mostly ignored this one while I went to town on the breakfast version. This was the first thing I picked out of my cupboard this morning in a groggy haze. The flavors have held up well over time, really well. The bergamot is strong and blends seamlessly with the base, the faint taste of citrus lingers after. A little cream makes this a very comforting cup. As nice as this EG is, I likely won’t be buying it again because my heart belongs to the other version.
