Tasty tea with a difference (Twinings Organic Earl Grey Tea)

Member Name: elliepop

Product:	Twinings Organic Earl Grey Tea
Date:	25/05/09 (10 review reads)
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Advantages: Distinctive but delicate flavour

Disadvantages: Regular tea drinkers might find this expensive

Although I am first and foremost a coffee drinker, being surrounded by a team of tea drinking collagues at work has forced my hand a little recently - it's easier to keep oneself perpetually topped up with tea than it is coffee; the effects are less hyperactive!

Twinings Earl Grey has become one of my favourite teas for something a little different from the "norm" - the tea is flavoured with bergamot, which gives it a very distinctive and aromatic taste. It also takes off some of the "edge" of the drink and imparts more of a relaxing and slow flavour to it which really makes it feel like a treat.

Although the flavour is intended to be delicate in its nature, I do prefer to brew this tea for a little longer than most and leave the tea bag in the mug. This is because the flavour tends to develop over time and unlike "normal" tea, leaving the bag in for long periods doesn't encourage some of the more undesirable "after flavours" to become more prominent.

The tea is a little more expensive than "ordinary" tea, but nevertheless the sums work out at just a few pence per cup which compares more than favourably with any other beverage. The only thing I would add to this is that I cannot tell any difference between the organic and non-organic versions of this tea; it may be that my tea drinker's palate is just not well developed enough - but unless you have a very fine ability to distinguish between flavours, I would suggest that the non-organic variety is just as acceptable (and cheaper and more readily available in most cases).

Summary: Good for a treat or a change for coffee lovers