Inspiración - Green Tea 100 g - Café du Jour loose tea

Green tea with six spices

Inspiración is a green tea blended by Café du Jour with cinnamon, lemongrass, hibiscus, ginger, cardamom and cloves. The spices are not a garnish here: ginger leads and warms the finish, cinnamon and cardamom sit sweet behind it, and the hibiscus lifts the aroma. What comes out is a soft, full cup rather than the grassy, sharper one a plain green tea gives you.

Brewing it

Our advice is one heaped teaspoon per cup, water at around 80°C — boiled water left to stand for a minute or two — and eight minutes in the pot. Whole spices need far longer than tea leaf to give up their flavour, which is why the steep is longer than you would give a plain green tea. Customers tell us the cup stays mild even when they leave the leaves in a while; if you want it lighter, take them out sooner. At a teaspoon a cup, a 100 g pack runs to somewhere around 40 to 50 cups.

When to drink it

The warming spice and the mild body suit the morning, or the break in the middle of a long afternoon, more than they suit a cup with a heavy meal.

Good to know

• Type: loose-leaf green tea blend
• Ingredients: green tea, cinnamon, lemongrass, hibiscus, ginger, cardamom, cloves
• Contents: 100 g
• Flavour: soft and full, warming ginger, sweet spice, fragrant
• Brewing: one heaped teaspoon per cup, water at around 80°C, eight minutes

Inspiración is part of the Café du Jour loose-leaf tea range, blended and packed in the Netherlands.