Earl Grey

Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
Bergamot Oil, Black Tea Leaves
Flavors
Bergamot, Astringent, Biting, Earth, Lemon, Orange, Tannin, Wood, Earl Grey, Spices, Smooth, Vanilla
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Bulk, Loose Leaf, Tea Bag
Caffeine
Not available
Certification
Kosher
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Average preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 4 min, 15 sec 11 oz / 316 ml

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You don’t have to be an Earl or a Duke or a Duchess to enjoy Earl Grey tea. We won’t even ask you to drink it with your pinky up. Enjoy as you are, because you’re great just the way you are. Really, it all brews down to this: you are a lively, tasteful, and interesting individual. Your tea should be too.

We created this citrusy Earl Grey tea by blending black tea with the finest bergamot oil, sourced from the sunny orchards of Calabria, Italy. You don’t have to be royalty to drink this bergamot tea, but you will feel like royalty. Cheers to that!

Loose leaf:

A Stash Tea best seller and long-time customer favorite! Earl Grey is black tea scented with bergamot, an oil extracted from a lime-shaped Mediterranean citrus about the size of an orange. Earl Grey brews up a beautiful amber cup with a distinctive flavor and lightly fragrant aroma.

Earl Grey is a versatile tea, at its best in the afternoon or after dinner. Delicious and flavorful plain, it may also be served with sugar and milk. Plus, it makes a wonderful, refreshing iced tea.

Stash uses superior grades of black tea for our Earl Grey. We strive for a distinctive tea flavor that is not overwhelmed by the pungent citrus, and we use only 100% pure bergamot oil, not a mixture.

Story has it that in 1830 Englishman Charles Earl Grey (the second Earl Grey, 1764-1845) was on a diplomatic mission to China, when a mandarin presented him with the recipe for making this distinctive tea. Now it is the most famous scented tea in the Western world.

Ingredients
Blended black teas, bergamot oil

Steeping Instructions
3-5 minutes at 190-209 degrees Fahrenheit

Caffeinated
Yes

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74 Tasting Notes

100
12 tasting notes

For a mass produced bagged tea it is actually really good

Preparation
3 min, 0 sec

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307 tasting notes

I brewed a small pot of this and tried it two ways — first clear, then with milk and honey. I found I slightly prefered the flavour clear, though as always the feel with milk and honey was better.

The flavour is stronger than other Earl Grey teas that I’ve had, which I appreciate.

Preparation
Boiling 8 min or more

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257 tasting notes

Of the several Earl Grey teas that I have sampled so far, the Stash Earl Grey has the most prominent Bergamot flavor. It has a bright taste that I enjoy as my second cup of the morning, after my first cup of a stronger and more awakening breakfast tea. Although the Bergamot presence will not be denied in this tea, it is not strong enough to mask the very pleasant tea flavor beneath it. Believe it or not, Stash also offers a DOUBLE Bergamot tea formula! I am curious to try it to see if you have to be a Bergamot addict to enjoy it.

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100
6 tasting notes

Drinking this now, one of my favorite teas. I add two teaspoons of sugar and some milk all the time. XD I started drinking this A LOT more since I started getting into watching Doctor Who this summer.

Preparation
Boiling 1 min, 0 sec

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85
31 tasting notes

This has been a favorite for a while. Comes conveniently in teabags, and each bag gets 1 good steep, but will continue to add flavor to the water for 3 more steeps without ever getting tannic. Great for days when you don’t want the caffeine of new leaves but don’t want water-flavored water :)

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C

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64 tasting notes

The black is good for CTC tea but the bergamot tastes fake and is generally not an appetizing aroma.

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 3 min, 0 sec

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6 tasting notes

Pretty new to tea drinking. Have been hooked on Twinings earl grey though itself not a particularly excellent tea especially whats available here in the US (ive heard the twinings in the UK is of better quality). However after running out of twinings, all my local market had was this stash earl grey. I find stash to have too much of the citrusy bergamot flavor. They supposedly use a mix of natural and artificial bergamot as do most tea brands but this one really felt artificial…i really prefer the more balanced twinings.

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61 tasting notes

I enjoy this Earl Grey. There is an element of citrus. It’s very different from Lady Grey though, with it’s more potent flavor. It is more flavorful then a few of the other Earl Grey’s I’ve tried. I love it as an afternoon tea.

Preparation
Boiling 2 min, 0 sec

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4 tasting notes

This is easily my favorite of the various Earl Grey teas that I’ve tried. In fact, this blend from Stash was the one that first turned me on to Earl Grey to begin with. Since then, it has become a regular in my cupboard.

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 4 min, 0 sec

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22 tasting notes

Didn’t like this at all, the bergamot flavour seemed really fake somehow. And the tea seemed to have only one note, it was really flat. Not enjoyable.

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