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Our Tea blog
Welcome to the Grey’s Teas blog. It focuses on high-grade loose leaf teas from around the world. We hope these will be of interest to you and help you discover more about the teas you enjoy most. Please use the drop-down menu above to choose the category of post that interests you most or feel free to just browse using the post snippets on this and the following pages.
English Tea Blends
Read more: English Tea BlendsEnglish Tea Blends: Explore their diversity English tea blends make up the majority of teas we consume in the United Kingdom. Even with all the speciality loose teas that are now increasingly popular. However, not all English blended teas are blended in England. English Tea blends each have notable characteristics derived from their constituent teas.…
Ceylon Teas
Read more: Ceylon TeasCeylon teas: an insight into its history and growing. Ceylon teas were planted in 1867, in what is now Sri Lanka, after a coffee blight wiped out all the coffee plantations on the island. Since then Ceylon tea (as it is still known) has not looked back. Sri Lanka is the world’s third largest tea producer…
Traditional Flavoured Teas
Read more: Traditional Flavoured TeasTraditional flavoured teas: black, green and oolong teas using natural flavours. The bergamot fruit, used in Earl Grey tea. The delicate nature of tea means that it easily absorbs other flavours introduced to it. Many traditional flavoured teas have a long history, others are more recent innovations. Many long-standing flavours are achieved by the introduction…
Why Drink Green Tea?
Read more: Why Drink Green Tea?Why Drink Green Tea? Anyone with an interest in tea will have heard an awful lot about why to drink green tea over the past few years. This is not just because green tea does your health a favour but enjoying it introduces you to a whole new tea drinking pleasure. The tastes vary from…
Drinking tea
Read more: Drinking teaDrinking Tea Poll? What people do whilst drinking tea? Our poll simply asked what you most commonly do when drinking tea. Images come to mind such as reading, having something to eat, reading or spending some time with friends. So what were the results? The most common activity (38% respondents) was browsing the internet. Perhaps this…
Breakfast Tea – what is the best?
Read more: Breakfast Tea – what is the best?Breakfast tea: is this the best tea for the morning? So often we think of tea as an afternoon beverage but increasingly people are discovering that it is preferable to coffee early in the morning and especially at breakfast. This is possibly because it is more thirst quenching when we feel somewhat dehydrated after a night’s…
Guide to Good Tea
Read more: Guide to Good TeaGuide to Good Tea: by numbers. 1. The Benefits of Loose Tea Using loose teas is the best way to make a cup of tea. With loose tea you can appreciate the full, balanced flavour of the tea. Here we explain why. Loose tea makes the best tea. That’s a bold statement you say. Why?…
Christmas Teas
Read more: Christmas TeasChristmas Teas: which teas should I choose? No Christmas would be complete without some good Christmas teas to enjoy, no matter how many glasses of wine, champagne or liqueurs are drunk. In fact, several cups could quite conceivably be drunk so which should you choose at the various stages of this special day? Waking up…
China Keemun Black Teas – an introduction.
Read more: China Keemun Black Teas – an introduction.Keemun, from Qimen county in Anhui Province, is one of China’s ten famous teas. Previously known as Tribute Teas, keemun was Britain’s favourite tea in the nineteenth century. These black teas are known as the ‘Burgundy of teas’ for their winey character, floral notes and orchid aroma. They were first produced in the 1870s using…
Green Tea Health Benefits
Read more: Green Tea Health BenefitsGreen Tea Health Benefits: Drink Your Way to Good Health Green tea has long been touted as one of the healthiest beverages around, but what are the green tea health benefits? Read on to find out. Green tea comes from the same shrub as normal, black tea but goes through a different oxidation and processing regime. It’s the…
Saffron Infusion
Read more: Saffron InfusionSaffron infusion: a distinguished history Saffron has a history stretching back to at least the 7th century BC. It is grown in the Middle East and has been traded along the Silk Road, between East and West, for Indian ivory, Chinese silk and Arabian frankincense. Saffron is famed for its value, widely acknowledged to be…
Ceylon Black Tea
Read more: Ceylon Black TeaCeylon Black Tea: ‘the cup that cheers’. Sri Lanka has the perfect climate and conditions for the cultivation of tea. This explains why Ceylon black teas are amongst the world’s most exported teas.They are noted for being brisk and for their floral aroma and fruitiness. They appear clear and golden-red in the cup. Almost all Ceylon…
Tea and Cake
Read more: Tea and CakeTea and Cake: what’s best with your tea? Discovering the UK’s Favourite Tea-Time Treats Tea and cake is irresistible. Up to 84% of the British population drinks tea and herbal infusions every day, amounting to approximately 60.2 billion cups being consumed every year. According to the United Kingdom Tea and Infusions Association, tea consumption forms…
Tea Essentials
Read more: Tea EssentialsTea Essentials: What is essential and not essential for a good cup of tea? There is so much talk about tea and its culture that one almost loses sight of what is important if one is to have a good cup of tea. Here, by way of attempting to provide a practical guide, we contrast…
Green Tea Guide
Read more: Green Tea GuideGreen Tea Guide: green teas are not all the same The fact that you are reading from this green tea guide is good news; for you recognise, perhaps following our blog post An Introduction to Green Tea, that green teas are not all the same. There are many variations in taste dependent upon where the tea is…
Which teas to choose for a tea menu
Read more: Which teas to choose for a tea menuWhich teas to choose for a tea menu: our guiding principles and tips Whether you are a tearoom, café, restaurant or hotel you might be pondering the thought “which teas should I choose for a tea menu to offer our customers, diners or guests?” There are several approaches to answering this question but I would start…
How to make a good cup of tea
Read more: How to make a good cup of teaHow to make a good cup of tea: a step by step approach By using loose leaf tea Loose leaf tea, especially large leaf grades make the best tea, as given a little time, they enable a balanced set of flavours infuse. There are however differences in how black, green oolong or white teas should…
My Favourite Black Tea
Read more: My Favourite Black TeaWhich is your favourite black tea? In our latest of a series of polls on our website that we have been running for several years, publicised on social media, we have some insight into which is your favourite black tea. In this poll 43% respondents said that Indian teas are their favourite. Is this surprising?…
Tea or Coffee?
Read more: Tea or Coffee?Tea or Coffee – which is best? The ongoing debate of tea or coffee has found its way onto the breakfast table and office conversation time and time again – and everyone seems to prefer one over the other. As a tea drinker myself, I’ve always been firmly on the side of the leaves over…
English Breakfast Tea
Read more: English Breakfast TeaIs English Breakfast tea the best breakfast tea in the world? Breakfast blend is such an important tea that every tea merchant offers it. However, many offer specifically an English Breakfast Tea. What makes this blend so special and how does it differ from Irish Breakfast, Scottish Breakfast, and indeed, what other single-origin teas could…
Chinese teas (8) Herbal teas and their health benefits (2) How to make a good cup of tea (3) loose tea (4) New Tea Growing Areas of the World (2) tea general knowledge (7) tea history (4) What is English Tea (3) What is Oolong tea (2)