The Grey’s Teas blog articles fall into various categories: teas defined, tea facts, understanding teas, tea history, tea culture, and health benefits of tea. We hope that you find these posts informative.
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This post is the first in our series on where you can drink good tea in historic tearooms with unforgettable surroundings. Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow These historic tearooms were designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The Cranston family were great supporters of him. Stuart Cranston, a tea merchant, opened a tearoom which proved a great success. […]
Discover five simple tea moments to bring warmth, calm, and comfort to your autumn days with teas picked to match the mood. A Season for Slowing Down As the days grow shorter and the air turns crisp, tea becomes more than a drink — it becomes a companion. Autumn invites us to gather warmth wherever […]
Mindful Tea Drinking: The Art of the Afternoon Pause Discover mindful tea drinking or the art of the afternoon tea pause and return your inner calmness. Learn how slowing down with a simple cup of tea can restore calm and focus to your day. This is in line with our theme #making-time-for-good-things. Rediscovering the Pause […]
18th Century Tea Chests: for a valuable new commodity Tea first exported from China to England in was extremely expensive and was stored in ceramic Chinese caddies, frequently blue and white. Soon tea chests were made in which to keep these tea caddies under lock and key and to be placed in the drawing room. […]
Saffron infusion: a distinguished history Saffron infusion is the best way to appreciate this historic spice. 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 […]
Green 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 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? […]
Caffeine in tea: by type and in other beverages Caffeine (1,3,7-trimethylxanthine), also known as theine in tea, is also present in coffee, cocoa and mate. It is a stimulant and diuretic. Caffeine promotes alertness and combats fatigue. In high quantities it can however give tise to jitteryness and irritability. It is thought that the compound […]
Chinese Tea Ceremony: celebrating the ordinary serving of tea. Gongfu Cha is the original Chinese tea ceremony, designed principally for the preparation of oolong tea. This developed in Chaozhou in Guangdong province. There is a reverence shown to the tea: its delicate aroma is appreciated and its lingering taste is experienced in small cups where […]
Lapsang Souchong Tea: love or hate like Marmite? We conducted an online poll on the thorny issue of Lapsang Souchong tea, thinking that it was analogous to Marmite in that we considered that people either love it or hate it. In fact we thought the parallel was so close we gave people four choices. Amazingly […]
