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
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.