Teapigs Darjeeling Earl Grey black tea pyramid

Most Earl Greys use poor quality China base tea, which is like palming yourself off as landed gentry when all you own is a Barbour jacket. We use the finest Darjeeling from the foothills of the Himalayas and add zesty bergamot citrus from sunny Southern Italy, to create something altogether more elegant. The blue cornflowers? Well, they just look so pretty.

Ingredients: darjeeling tea 98 %, cornflowers, natural bergamot flavour with other natural flavourings

2.5g net weight

Good if you're feeling:
In need of refinement; one sip of this will leave you feeling posh.

How we like it:
Drink it with a slice of lemon, no milk – that’s the way we like it, but each to their own. Same with the sugar.

Iced
Just cover one tea temple with boiling water and infuse for 3 minutes. Remove temple and top-up glass with iced water. Garnish with lemon.

Brew time:
tea temple - 1 per person. Infuse in boiling water. Brew for 3+ minutes.

Teapigs is a British company. They are using only quality real tea. By quality real tea, we mean whole leaf tea, whole leaf herbs, whole berries, whole spices and whole flowers. Not the dusty stuff you’ll find in regular paper teabags.

It's all about the flavour. The tea in regular tea bags has been squashed, chopped and manhandled so, by the time it reaches your cup, almost all the flavour is lost. We don't think that's very nice.

The whole leaves, berries, herbs, flowers and spices in Teapigs tea temples have been handled gently and with love, to maintain every drop of that precious flavour.

Teas worthy of worship deserve their own temple. Teapigs teas come in special tea “temple” – a biodegradable mesh bag that gives the whole leaves lots of room to infuse. Looks pretty too. Loose tea without the fuss.

Teapigs racked up 60 Great Taste Awards over the years!