Little Lemon Tree - green tea 100 g - Café du Jour loose tea
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Lemon comes at you from three directions here: lemongrass, citrus peel and natural lemon flavouring, all on a Sencha green tea base. The result is light and sharply citrus rather than sweet, and it works as well cold as hot — brew it, let it cool, then add ice and a slice of lemon. Loose leaf, 100 g, produced in Germany for Café du Jour.
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Lemon from three directions
Little Lemon Tree is a flavoured green tea built on Sencha, a leaf that keeps a fresh, grassy edge underneath the flavouring. Three things carry the citrus above it. Lemongrass is bright and a little grassy itself; citrus peels bring the bitter-sweet oil of the rind; and natural lemon flavouring sits on top of both. Together they make a pronounced lemon note that leads the cup without burying the tea, and the whole thing stays light rather than sweet.
Water off the boil
Boiling water is the one thing to avoid. At a full 100 °C green leaf turns sharp and drags the citrus with it, so let the kettle stand a minute and pour at around 80 °C. Two grams of loose leaf per 200 ml cup, two to three minutes, then lift the leaves out. Left longer, the lemongrass goes hard-edged.
Cold, with ice
This blend takes well to iced tea. Brew it as you normally would, let it cool, then pour it over ice cubes with a slice of fresh lemon in the glass. Citrus peel and lemongrass both hold their flavour when the tea is cold, which is not true of every flavoured blend.
Specifications
- Type: flavoured green tea, loose-leaf
- Base: Sencha green tea
- Ingredients: green tea, lemongrass, citrus peels, natural lemon flavouring, flavouring
- Brewing: 2 g per 200 ml, about 80 °C, 2-3 minutes
- Contains caffeine
- Net weight: 100 g
- Produced in Germany
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