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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.

  • Tea Tasting

    Tea Tasting

    Tea tasting: how it is done and what to find out Tea tasting is fundamental to the discipline of creating and buying good tea. How do professional tea tasters taste tea and what are the benefits? Ensuring high quality Tea tasters taste all types and grades of tea to ensure that each meets the expectations…

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  • The Health Benefits of Japanese Green Tea

    The Health Benefits of Japanese Green Tea

    The Health Benefits of Japanese Green Tea: they have a formidable reputation. From the late nineteenth until the mid twentieth centuries Japan did produce some black tea but this ceased in the face of competition from new tea producing areas of the world. Originally, its tea making techniques and philosophy came from China but this has…

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  • Tea away from home

    Tea away from home

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  • Tea general knowledge: Our series.

    Tea general knowledge: Our series.

    Here we have some interesting questions relating to tea. They are all quite randomly posed and the answers are in the captions below. If your have some tea questions of your own just get in touch and we will endeavour to answer them! Tea typically provides 17% of our calcium intake giving us strong teeth…

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  • Guide to our Tea Shop

    Guide to our Tea Shop

    A Guide to our online Tea Shop Our website has constantly evolved since Grey’s Teas was established in 2000 but is essentially in its fifth generation. As well as a comprehensive online tea shop we are proud of our supporting information pages and our blog which aim to answer any questions you may have about…

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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)