The story goes that Earl Grey, the Georgian prime minister, was given cases of this tea by a Chinese Mandarin. He liked it so much he brought it home and asked Twinings to recreate it for him.

Over a hundred years ago, a Scotsman named Drysdale went into the speciality tea business within sight of Edinburgh castle and offered a tea called Breakfast.

Over the last few decades green tea has been subjected to many scientific and medical studies to determine the extent of its long-purported health benefits, with some evidence suggesting regular green tea drinkers may have lower chances of heart disease and developing certain types of cancer.

Twinings’ addition of organically-grown jasmine blossoms to their expertly-blended, pure, organic green tea delivers a sweet, smooth and very fragrant tea.

Tom Healy at Huffington Post describes the magical scent as, “…the ancient smell of calm. The cool beauty of the night.” The word, jasmine, is of Persian origin meaning, “a gift from God.”