Black · Qimen × Calabria
Earl Grey
Moderate caffeine
A black-tea blend lifted with cold-pressed bergamot oil: citrus brightness over a brisk, familiar base.
Recipe
- Temperature
- 95 °C · 203 °F
- Leaf
- 4 g
- Water
- 250 ml
- First steep
- 3:30
- Each next steep
- +0:30
- Steeps
- 2
Suggested starting point.
Time this brew with Pekoe
Aroma notes
bergamot · citrus zest · malt
Tasting notes
bright · brisk · perfumed
Making
Plucking 
Withering 
Rolling 
Oxidation 
Scenting 
Blending
Origins
Lore
Named for Charles Grey, Britain's 1830s prime minister, though the recipe's true origin is contested tea-trade legend. The bergamot is real enough: a fragrant citrus grown almost nowhere but Calabria's coastal strip.
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