Cotswold Lavender – Earl Grey & Lavender Tea
I’m not sure where I got this Cotswold Lavender tea from. I think my daughter gave it to me. I certainly didn’t purchase it from the gift shop at the Cotswold Lavender Fields in Worcestershire because I would remember if I had skipped through fields of lavender and checked out their wildflower meadows and beechwood trail. It sounds like just the kind of day out I would enjoy.
Cotswold Lavender produce a range of products made with the lavender they’ve been growing at the farm since the mid-1990s. There’s lavender chocolate, lavender soothing muscle rub and pleasingly old-school lavender talcum powder all available on their website.
And there’s this Earl Grey & Lavender tea, which it pains me to tell you, is not all that nice. I’m sure this isn’t the lavender’s fault. But it tastes like someone chose to make this Cotswold Lavender tea blend using PG tips-quality tea. This seems to be a recurring issue with teas sold in gift shops. The underlying black tea base just isn’t pleasing at all.
If you are a big lavender tea fan – and I know it’s a divisive tea ingredient, but I am firmly in the pro-lavender camp here – you could get round this shortcoming by purchasing some of Cotswold Lavender’s culinary lavender grains and blending your own more satisfactory blend with a good quality black tea.
Or you could just buy Chai Wallah Margate Lavender Earl Grey or Tregothnan Lavender Tea instead. Those are some lavender teas which take the ‘tea’ part seriously.
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Beautiful tea divine part of this world, thank you for sharing 🙏