Tea: Black
Type: Teabag
Additional Ingredients: none
Origin: ?
Harrods Earl Grey out of the pack smells like a stiff black tea. This is only confirmed by its dark color and taste. Its tagline is "a distinctive tea with a hint of bergamot” and it is pretty much that. Strongly tasting of black tea and maybe a trace of the oil. It has the nice bergamot mouth feeling a little in the after taste but you sure can’t smell it to really taste it in the sip.
Harrods claims to make the perfect cup you should put it in fine china after steeping for 3-5 minutes. I steeped for 3.5 and I wouldn’t recommend much more than that. On the fine china front the closest thing I had readily available was a Merry Christmas ceramic mug with a snowman on it. I’m sure Frosty was feeling pretty posh with this guy in him.
While it’s a bit strong for my liking it is not a bad cuppa. Keep the steeping down and wait until the miserably moist English winter and you’ll be glad you have a little extra kick in this brew. If it actually snows ever again in London then make sure to break out your Frosty mug for that added ambience that really sticks it to Knightsbridge.
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