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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.
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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…
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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…
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The Flavour of Herbal Teas
Read more: The Flavour of Herbal TeasThe flavour of herbal teas: appreciating the taste Herbal teas are more accurately described as herbal infusions or tisanes in that they are not based on the tea plant, Camellia sinsensis. Rich in antioxidants, there are a huge variety of them, many long acknowledged for their health benefits. Many also have a very attractive flavour.…
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Historic Tea Rooms
Read more: Historic Tea RoomsThis 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.…
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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…
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Mindful Tea Drinking
Read more: Mindful Tea DrinkingMindful 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…
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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…
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Five Autumn Teas for Cosy Moments
Read more: Five Autumn Teas for Cosy MomentsDiscover 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…
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Tea Chests
Read more: Tea Chests18th 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.…
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Saffron Infusion
Read more: Saffron InfusionSaffron 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…
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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…
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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?…
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Caffeine in Tea
Read more: Caffeine in TeaCaffeine 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…
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Chinese Tea Ceremony
Read more: Chinese Tea CeremonyChinese 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…
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Lapsang Souchong Tea
Read more: Lapsang Souchong TeaLapsang 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…
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Loose Leaf Tea Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Read more: Loose Leaf Tea Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)Answers to questions you may be asking about tea! What is loose leaf tea? Loose leaf tea is tea leaves, whether blended, black, green or oolong, flavoured or herbal that is not contained in a bag. Conventionally this may be a paper bag such as a string tagged bag, or a mesh pyramid style infusion…
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What is Yellow Tea?
Read more: What is Yellow Tea?Yellow teas can be compared with green teas and white teas. Yellow tea is little known because little is now made as its production is expensive. It is worth the trouble and expense however as ‘spring tea’ as it is known, is indeed fresh and aromatic. The name is taken from the appearance of the…
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Best tea for early morning
Read more: Best tea for early morningBest tea for early morning: blends, black teas and beyond An early morning cup of tea can refresh you after a night’s sleep and help you concentrate on the task in hand, getting up to face the day, but which is the best tea for early morning? Caffeine from tea passes into the blood-stream slowly,…
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Introduction to Oolong Teas
Read more: Introduction to Oolong TeasIntroduction to Oolong Teas: complex semi-oxidized teas Oolong teas, or wulong as they were known, translates as Black Dragon and these teas account for around fourteen percent of Chinese tea production. Highly acclaimed in China, they are semi-fermented, in that the leaf is partially oxidised and therefore lye between green tea which is not oxidised…
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Microplastics in tea bags
Read more: Microplastics in tea bagsA research study by the University of Barcelona has found that many teabags are leaching billions of microplastic particles into our cups. This concern was reported by the BBC as far back as 19th September 2019. These particles are most readily absorbed by the mucus-forming cells in the gut and can pass into our blood-stream,…
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