After the Chinese came across tea five thousand years ago, it took another couple of thousand years for the tea to disseminate to the rest of the world. Botanical name for tea is Camellia sinensis.

Among perchance 1500 varieties of tea, my favored is Earl Grey. Since I like the comfortableness of teabags, I always stick with teabags.

To make a perfective brew, one needs to store the tea bags or loose tea in an air-tight container at room temperature. One teabag is applied for each cup, and freshly drawn boiling water is a must. This is because the water ought to comprise oxygen for perfective flavor, and most of the taste is lost if the water is boiled more than once.

The specific fragrance and taste of Earl Grey Tea comes from the oil of bergamot. Bergamot is a little orange, a cross amid pear lemon and sour orange. As a blend of Indian and Ceylon teas, this tea has been the favored of many, even the nobility and the kings, for rather galore time.

The Earl Grey tea blend is named after the second Earl Grey–Charles Grey–who served as the Prime Minister in Great Britain in the original half of the nineteenth century. Earl Grey Tea carries a couple of legends with regards to it is origin. One of the legends involves Earl Grey’s servant rescuing an Indian rajah’s son from a man-eating tiger, and according to another legend, a Chinese nobleman–after his son’s rescue by the Earl’s men from drowning–served the tea blend to Earl Grey.

Twinings sold the primary Earl Grey tea to the British; altho Jacksons of Pickadilly say they were the basi ones who came up with Earl Grey at regarding the same time. I don’t know if Jacksons’ assert is right or wrong, but I like the quote beneath their logo by Kakuzo Okakura, which says: “Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to fetch out it is noblest qualities.” This quote alone gives the tea a special reputation as if it were a person.

Besides Twinings and Jacksons of Piccadilly, numerous companies lately provide the Earl Grey Tea for consumers: Stash, Barrows, Yogi Tea Company, Bigelow’s, Pickwick, Numi Tea, Dragonwater, Tazo, Harney and Sons, Good Earth, Gevalia, Celestial Seasonings, etc.

In York, UK, assorted Earl Grey Tea Rooms disseminate out in the city. Some of them carry all the formality of the British teatime rituals. Although seemingly formal, these establishments are very friendly to the tourists. For Earl Grey Tea lovers like me and in all probability for Captain Picard of Star Trek, visiting York’s Earl Grey Tea Rooms has to have a uninterrupted place on the to-do list, but for today, a freshly brewed cup of Bigelow’s Earl Grey Tea will have to be sufficient for me.

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