Earl Grey Moonlight

I received this tea as a sample from Adagio. I am a big fan of earl grey teas, but can be wary of vanilla or cream flavored teas. I thought this tea was okay, but I probably wouldn’t buy it to drink often. You get the creaminess on the finish, but it tends to linger which I don’t prefer.

This Ceylon based tea smells sensational. It tastes delicious. Lovely color too. This is a great tea if you want an easy to make Earl Grey with creamier notes than the more traditional types with Black Tea. This is one of my favorite teas; clean, refreshing, slightly sweet, slighty creamy and very smooth.

This tea has a special place in my heart. Not only is a vanilla earl grey (sometimes called earl grey crème) one of my favourite blends, but this is also the first Adagio tea I EVER tried. I remember being excited by the engulfing sweet creamy notes and devouring that first packet. I loved it then, and I love it now.

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Creamy earl grey. I enjoyed this blend, my son loves it even more than I do.

I like this one, and I generally dislike Adagio blacks. This one has backbone but isn’t bitter. The bergamot is there, but is softened by the cream. I don’t really get vanilla from it. There’s a hint of lemon and orange. It’s fairly smooth, and doesn’t have that kind of prickly feel/taste that bergamot sometimes has for me. It has the nice clean mouthfeel that Earl Greys in general have for me. All in all, nice and solid for everyday drinking.

Adagio has been disappointing me lately. They dont add enough flavor to the flavored blends! For example Earl Grey Moonlight- the black tea totally overpowers the vanilla/cream component. Their black tea is STRONG and bitter and bold. And the vanilla/cream just gets lost! Adagio has great prices and I love the ability to make your own custom blends, but their flavor is just lacking. They need to add more flavoring to these because it just gets lost.

The tea leaves smell amazing both dry and wet: like a frosted cake in a cup. I was disappointed by the taste, though: I find the vanilla overpowers the bergamot/citrus to the point that this cup tastes more like dessert than like an afternoon tea. The black tea base comes through nice and strong, however, just as in Adagio’s Earl Grey Bravo.

Would recommend for a dessert treat with milk and sugar, perhaps. But it disappoints as a standalone drink.

This Earl Grey is nice, though not as intense, it seemed, as Adagio’s other Earl Greys. I think the cream is pretty dominant here, as opposed to some of the more traditional Earl Grey-y flavors. Either way, it’s a nice tea to have with a bit of cream and sugar.

Mild earl grey flavour with slightly creamy feel

Good enough to warrant deciding that my initial love-hate affair is over with it. I have to admit I like this stuff every so often. I hate bergamot, but it plays nicely in this creamy, moody tea. It’s not a grab-and-chug tea (not for lack of trying). It’s sort of like having an audience with the Queen- you don’t just go up, say hey how’s it going, I like you (or not) and then walk away. This one commands respect and packs the rich flavor to go with it. So go have this audience with this softly-commanding, slightly romantic, delicious strange creature. It’s worth it!