L'essence - White Tea 100 g - Café du Jour Loose Tea
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L'essence is white tea and cornflower, and nothing else. The cup is pale, slightly sweet and very clean, with none of the grip or bitterness of a black tea, and the blue cornflower petals are there for the look of the leaf more than for the flavour. It comes as 100 g of loose tea, so you set the strength yourself rather than being tied to what a bag holds.
Details
White tea with cornflower
L'essence is a white tea with cornflower petals and nothing further. White tea is the least handled of the tea leaf: picked young, then simply withered and dried instead of rolled and fired, which is why the cup comes out pale and tastes slightly sweet and clean rather than brisk. The cornflower brings blue to the dry leaf more than flavour to the cup.
Brewing it
White tea wants water that is hot but off the boil; boiling water scalds the leaf and the delicacy goes with it. Use about 2 to 3 g per cup in a strainer, an infuser or a pot, and give it two to three minutes for a light, sweet cup, a minute longer for more body. The leaf is worth a second steep — pour again and the same measure gives you a lighter cup. At that dose a 100 g pack runs to roughly forty cups.
From our own tea packing house
This is one of the Café du Jour loose-leaf teas, blended and packed at our own tea packing house in the Maasland countryside in the Netherlands.
Good to know
- Type: loose-leaf white tea
- Ingredients: white tea, cornflower
- Contents: 100 g
- Flavour: pale, slightly sweet, clean, no bitterness
- Brewing: water off the boil, 2 to 3 g per cup, two to three minutes
- Packed at the Café du Jour tea packing house in Maasland, the Netherlands
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