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Earl Grey

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This Earl, whose name was Charles, was Prime minister for a time under the reign of William IV (1830-1837). Like many of the rich and famous for the time, he had his own personal blend of tea prepared to his specifications. What made the good Earl’s blend to unusual at the time was that first known scented tea drunk in the West. No one knows for sure where the Earl came up with it. The fanciful story was that q Chinese Mandarin gave him the formula in gratitude for saving his life. This is unlikely, especially since the bergamot orange is unknown in China. The bergamot (rhymes with ‘pot’) used in this tea is a Pear shaped citrus fruit, grown primarily around the Mediterranean for the fragrant oil pressed out of the rinds and used in perfumes. The most likely connection is that during the Earl’s time, the greek island of Corfu was the world’s leading market for bergamot oil as well as the Mediterranean base for the British Royal Navy. Although the Earl wasn’t in the Navy, some of his friends may have introduced him to the oil or may be there was a fortunate accident and some of the oil merely leaked on some tea while in transit.	Rs35	Rs60

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