Cream of Earl Grey

Name: Cream of Earl Grey


Brand:  David's Tea


Primary Type:  Black


Dry Scent:  Very clean milk chocolate scent (even though there is no chocolate involved here), not over-sweet, faint mintiness (even though there isn't any mint in this) & bergamot, rounded out with a beautiful rich and creamy vanilla, not like the preparation, but like very good quality vanilla pods.  The scent of this is like a warm, comforting hug, and I could seriously bury my nose in the canister for hours and just huff this.  The first image that always comes to mind is a small, fancy chocolate shop which makes a variety of unusual but divine truffles and creams.


Steeping Time: 4-5 min


Steeped Flavour:  This is an incredibly smooth tea, with flavours of chocolate, jasmine and dark citrus from the bergamot. Almost no bitterness at all, surprising in a black tea, and much more subtle on the palate than most Earl Grey.  It is almost perfumed, but not in a bad way at all, and the vanilla adds a creaminess that helps blend everything together.  It is hard to describe what I love so much about this tea.  It almost sounds like it should be "too much", but it is wonderful, comforting and the kind of thing you can sip all day long, or all night long if you need to stay up.


Food/Drink Pairings:  This would be good any time of day, but probably not with the main course of lunch or dinner, since the vanilla makes it naturally sweet even without adding any milk or sugar.  It pairs very well with any number of desserts, however, and would be incredible with chocolates.  In fact, if I knew how to make my own chocolates and ganache, this would be made into Cream of Earl Grey chocolates.

Hmm...maybe try making Cream of Earl Grey infused chocolate cake with cream cheese icing...


Rating out of Six Tails:
6/6


Buy/Don't Buy

Can you tell I'm in love with this tea?  This is definitely one of my first loves from the David's Tea advent calender I got last Christmas, and another one of those "must have this on hand at all times" teas, for sure!