Marzipan Rose - Black tea 100 g - Café du Jour loose tea

Almonds first, rose behind

Marzipan Rose is a black tea blended with almonds, rose buds and rose petals, plus flavouring and natural flavouring. The almonds and the flavouring together are what make the marzipan: sweet, nutty and clear enough to recognise from the first sip. The rose comes through mainly as scent, and the buds and petals are easy to spot in the dry leaf. Under all of it sits a plain black tea, and that is what keeps the cup from tasting like a sweet.

Three minutes sweet, five minutes dry

Count on about 2 g per cup, roughly a level teaspoon, and water just off the boil rather than straight from it. Three minutes gives you the softer, sweeter side of the blend; five gives you a stronger, drier cup as the tannins of the black tea come forward. There are no bags here, so you will need a tea strainer or a filter bag. At 2 g a cup, a 100 g pack makes around 50 cups.

On the caffeine

This is a black tea, so there is caffeine in it. Theine, the word you sometimes see on tea packaging, is the same substance under another name. For a late evening cup, a rooibos or a herbal infusion is the better choice; for the rest of the day this one does the job.

The details

• Type: flavoured black tea, loose leaf
• Ingredients: black tea, almonds, rose buds, rose petals, flavouring, natural flavouring
• Flavour: sweet marzipan and almond, with a soft rose scent
• Brewing: 2 g per cup, water just off the boil, 3-5 minutes
• Caffeine: yes
• Contains almonds
• Contents: 100 g
• Produced in the Netherlands