This is the feed of all reviews of Earl Grey Tea on RateTea.http://ratetea.com/style/earl-grey/28/http://ratetea.com/review/7140/http://ratetea.com/review/7140/Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:36:39 ESTTeavivre took a nice Ceylon black tea, added some bergamot oil, and then put it up for sale at a reasonable price. This is on the light and mellow side, with a good amount of bergamot flavor. Fruity and bright. I would say this as good a reasonably priced EG as can be found anywhere. http://ratetea.com/review/7086/http://ratetea.com/review/7086/Mon, 12 May 2025 02:35:38 ESTHere's another Mighty Leaf blend I got included in a hotel stay, but I'm basing the (way overpriced) value rating on the online cost, over 50¢/bag in 100-ct bulk box! Even for a really good decaf tea, that's probably too steep to steep for most folks, unless one is so desperate for a very good decaf EG that such a large payout is worth the trouble. For a decaf black tea, this Ceylon tea (per their website) is remarkably good, via both smell and taste. It doesn't have the tinny or metallic tone I get...http://ratetea.com/review/7073/http://ratetea.com/review/7073/Mon, 03 Mar 2025 18:26:21 ESTThis tea came from a TWG shop in Bangkok, weighed and bagged onsite out of the top 1/4 of a wholesale bucket. As such, it smelled and tasted (and should be!) really fresh, and is excellent in quality on both counts. The dry aroma is quite fruity, more in a berry-like way than citrus, but with the bergamot orange still detectable, and malty, indicating at least some of the blend probably is Assam. Steeped, this tea turns dark quickly for having medium- to large-sized loose leaves, and seems to balanc...http://ratetea.com/review/7046/http://ratetea.com/review/7046/Fri, 01 Nov 2024 22:50:32 ESTAfter a phase of pyramidal sachets in covered plastic cups a few years ago, Teavana seems to have been reconstituted yet again—this time as a line of individually wrapped bagged teas on the target-audience level of Tazo or Stash, but costlier. At a conference, I saw several new Teavana offerings, and took samples home to try on my own well water and review here. They're also for sale at Amazon and Wal-Mart, and probably other stores, which tells me the reincarnation of Teavana is serious. I hope it su...http://ratetea.com/review/7040/http://ratetea.com/review/7040/Fri, 30 Aug 2024 07:55:57 ESTBenner Earl Grey (from ALDI food stores) came across much the opposite to me, on first try, as to the other reviewer: weak on bergamot and OK on tea. In fact, when opening the paper wrapper for each bag and taking a good sniff, I hardly could detect the bergamot, but the tea was obvious in the dry aroma. The bergamot was somewhat more detectable in-cup (smell and taste), but not a lot. It makes me wonder if the batches are inconsistently prepared. Maybe they are, but the solution upon which I stumbl...http://ratetea.com/review/6997/http://ratetea.com/review/6997/Fri, 03 May 2024 16:21:47 ESTFound this at an Armenian market, $14 for 500 grams. The leaf is very dark. The brewed tea is a dark amber color. It has a slight bitterness, but to me tastes as most regular Earl Grey teas.http://ratetea.com/review/6987/http://ratetea.com/review/6987/Sat, 24 Feb 2024 18:16:06 ESTGiven how much of a waste of time and steeping water Whittard's standard Earl Grey was, expectations for this version ran low. What a pleasant surprise instead! Not only did this tea actually have a detectable and pleasant aroma upon opening the wrapper and sniffing the dry bag, that carried over quite strongly into in-cup aroma and flavor. The smell was strongly lemony, with only a bit of bergamot in it, bringing to mind an EG tea loaded up with lemon, as some folks (including my wife) like to do. ...http://ratetea.com/review/6982/http://ratetea.com/review/6982/Mon, 29 Jan 2024 11:01:18 ESTThis is a pleasant EG, but very much on the lighter side. There is not a lot of bergamot flavor, and the tea is a little thin - but it makes a perfectly enjoyable cup. I would recommend this to someone who likes a mild Earl Grey. http://ratetea.com/review/6980/http://ratetea.com/review/6980/Sat, 20 Jan 2024 13:17:20 ESTThis has a little lavender flavor plus a lot in the potpourri-like aroma, and there is plenty of bergamot too. With lemon or lime and sugar, it has a candied orange peel flavor. I preferred it with milk and sugar, which is a little more subtle. A good change of pace from the usual Earl Grey. http://ratetea.com/review/6977/http://ratetea.com/review/6977/Thu, 11 Jan 2024 19:41:50 ESTI will always give a flavored Earl Grey a try; sometimes they are very impressive, sometimes not. It is interesting to see how the teamakers alter the EG formula - I have had them with lavender, chocolate, rose, and vanilla, maybe others too. This Baroness adds lemon, cornflower, and rose along with the bergamot (and some natural flavoring too). I usually have my EG with lemon and sugar, so I was excited to try one with the lemon already included, but I ended up just a little disappointed. This is accep...http://ratetea.com/review/6971/http://ratetea.com/review/6971/Sun, 17 Dec 2023 12:54:48 ESTThis tea came from a Middle Eastern eatery, and I took home an extra bag to try on home well water (instead of our heavily chlorinated city stuff that gets fishy this time of year when the lake turns over). Turns out not all the "fishy" element was from the water! Here's the second Earl Grey tea in a row I've reviewed that would be deemed unfitting even for the coffee-pot area of a cheap, rickety old motel. The aroma of the dry bag was so weak as to be nearly absent. I could smell the bag paper ove...http://ratetea.com/review/6969/http://ratetea.com/review/6969/Sat, 09 Dec 2023 11:44:41 ESTHere's a rare flavored black tea where the flavor itself is fairly feeble, and the tea dominates it (not necessarily in a good way, either). Save your money and get an off-brand, food-service tea at a cheap motel, for an experience that is comparable, if not better. I got this from a gift pack of sampler boxes, with individually wrapped teabags. One would think this seals in aroma better. Usually it does. But the dry-bag scent of this tea was barely perceptible! It seemed like the tea was left sit...http://ratetea.com/review/6930/http://ratetea.com/review/6930/Sat, 29 Apr 2023 14:16:43 ESTThis is a good deal on an organic earl grey - as of this writing an 11 oz bag is selling for a very attractive price, and it is a good tea. The base tea is pretty mellow, and there is a little candied orange flavor from the bergamot. This is on the low-key side for the style. The aroma of the dry tea is strong and citrusy. An easy-to-like Earl Grey. http://ratetea.com/review/6887/http://ratetea.com/review/6887/Sun, 11 Dec 2022 01:37:02 ESTAnother "conference tea" here...I had a couple bags there, and brought another home to steep in boiling well water. Water quality at the meeting was good, so my impressions were consistent in both places. The best part of this tea was its dry-bag smell: potent, high-quality bergamot, but still not too much to overpower the aroma of tea. I wish the in-cup scent and flavor were that luscious! The in-cup aroma was somewhat offputting, with little bergamot and a distinct character of soggy, musty, harv...http://ratetea.com/review/6874/http://ratetea.com/review/6874/Fri, 18 Nov 2022 10:19:39 ESTThis is the second loose-leaf Earl Grey I've had from Murchie's, and an outstanding example of the type, especially for someone like me who likes a bold, assertive tea. It is made from Assam, Keemun and Yunnan, and you bet the Assam asserts itself boldly in all phases of taste and aroma. Upon opening the bag, the dry scent does what you'd expect from a well-crafted EG: an unmistakable stream of bergamot, but not so intense that the tea also doesn't smell great on its own. In fact, *both* are strong, wi...http://ratetea.com/review/6869/http://ratetea.com/review/6869/Wed, 02 Nov 2022 10:40:26 ESTThe round, tagless tea bags are packed into a sealed mylar pouch, but aren't individually wrapped. The freshly opened pouch smells of bergamot, but isn't as fruity as Williamson's Duchess Grey. The bergamot has an aroma that is present in the Duchess Grey, but otherwise unique to Willamson. It's fruity, but almost has a berry-like note to it that I don't notice in other Earl Greys. The tea itself is CTC black tea from Kenya. The tea and bergamot flavors are nicely balanced. The tea has a medium astringe...http://ratetea.com/review/6843/http://ratetea.com/review/6843/Wed, 05 Oct 2022 10:49:56 ESTBenner English Breakfast is ALDI's regular "premium" offering. This Earl Grey is a periodic special. The tea bags are packaged in individual cellophane pouches. The dry tea looks like CTC granules that have been further crumbled. It has a nice bergamot aroma. The brewing tea smells of bergamot, but there's little contribution from the tea itself. This carries through to the first sip. The bergamot flavor is nice, but though not particularly strong, it completely buries the tea flavor. After the te...http://ratetea.com/review/6832/http://ratetea.com/review/6832/Fri, 05 Aug 2022 10:07:35 ESTThe dry tea is finely chopped and smells strongly of citrus. There are a few white flecks in the bag that according to the ingredients are probably bergamot peel. I'm pretty sure that the citrus in Twinings Earl Grey is a blend. The bergamot is pronounced (as it should be in an Earl Grey), but I also taste sweet orange and grapefruit. The tea itself is mild. I can taste a bit of maltiness under the citrus, but it's thin-bodied with almost no bitterness or astringency. I prefer Earl Grey made with more f...http://ratetea.com/review/6828/http://ratetea.com/review/6828/Mon, 18 Jul 2022 08:59:49 ESTThis is a mellow EG, with a smooth base tea and subdued bergamot flavor. Usually I prefer my EG with lemon and sugar, but imo this works best with milk and just a little sugar.http://ratetea.com/review/6797/http://ratetea.com/review/6797/Thu, 07 Apr 2022 10:27:44 ESTThe foil-sealed tea bags each contain just shy of 2g of tea. The box claims a net weight of 33g in 18 bags, which makes for 1.8g of tea. The dry tea bag smells strongly of bergamot. It also smells fresher than most other Earl Grey, like freshly cut fruit. This may be the fruitiest-smelling Earl Grey I've tried. The steeping tea is even more fragrant, smelling again like fresh fruit. I'm not getting much from the tea, though. There's a bit of earthiness, but so far, that's about it. Any maltiness or e...http://ratetea.com/review/6707/http://ratetea.com/review/6707/Tue, 31 Aug 2021 13:37:02 ESTHalf-litre pot at home, made from a mixture of black tea (Assam?) leaves, sprinkled with flavour and bergamot oil. Pours nearly clear copper brown (against white china) with no sediment. Clear aroma of bergamot oil, with malty and leafy notes of black tea (Assam?). Bitter, but not aggressive, leafy flavour with sweetish, malty touches and notes of bergamot oil. Mildly astringent palate with a malty aftertaste and touch of bergamot oil. A well-balanced and tasty Earl Grey. Fair price (40 DKK per 100 g). Dec...http://ratetea.com/review/6665/http://ratetea.com/review/6665/Wed, 05 May 2021 07:47:15 ESTSeveral better Earl Greys exist in bags, but for the price (around $2.50/20 ct.), it's hard to beat. Dry-bag scent was firm and plain, but pleasant and strong, more so than most bagged Earl Greys. Closer inspection revealed likely why. Even though all the tea was settled at the bag's bottom, each bag itself so far has been stained a faint orange-yellow color, evenly, up and down and all around. Was it because the bag absorbed excess oil off the tea, but somehow uniformly and where there wasn't tea, or...http://ratetea.com/review/6640/http://ratetea.com/review/6640/Sun, 28 Mar 2021 09:31:51 ESTOne-litre pot at home, made from fine green and brown leaves of Darjeeling sprinkled with bergamot oil and flavour. Pours clear copper brown (against white china) with no sediment. Clear aroma of Darjeeling tea, with touches of bergamot oil and mild basement hints. Bitter, leafy flavour of Darjeeling, with touches of bergamot oil and very mild notes of basement. Astringent palate with an aftertaste of bergamot. A nice Earl Grey. I suppose, however, that the recommended brewing time (4 minutes) is just abou...http://ratetea.com/review/6591/http://ratetea.com/review/6591/Fri, 08 Jan 2021 14:04:12 ESTMy wife is trying to cut back caffeine intake, and had me include this offering in the latest virtual "Murchie's run" that we do a time or two per year. And being a big fan of both happy marriages and the $CAD---->$USD exchange rates the last few years, I did not object. Now that I've tried the tea, I'm glad that I didn't raise a fuss. She likes it well enough, and I'll add it to my list of bedtime teas, almost all of which are herbal. Make no mistake, this isn't nearly as delicious nor rich as their...http://ratetea.com/review/6565/http://ratetea.com/review/6565/Fri, 25 Dec 2020 16:56:05 ESTHalf-litre pot at home, made from a sample included in the tea company's Advent Tea Calendar (2020) and consisting of fine leaves of black tea and cornflower blossom, all sprinkled with bergamot oil flavour. Pours clear amber (against white china) with no sediment. Clear aroma of black tea, with hints of bergamot oil. Bitter, leafy flavour with bergamot oil notes and floral touches. Mildly astringent palate (for the style) with black tea aftertaste. Well, a decent Earl Grey. Rather mild for the style, as i...