Royal winter - Fruit tea 100 g - Café du Jour loose tea

A winter fruit tea with white tea under it

Most winter blends are fruit and nothing else. Royal winter puts white tea underneath the fruit, which gives the cup a light, clean backbone and changes how you brew it. On that base sit apple, pineapple and rosehip for the fruit, cardamom, cinnamon and black pepper for the spice, and beetroot and cornflower petals, which colour the infusion and add a mild floral note. What you get is full and fruity with a warm, spiced edge.

Tea leaf, not only fruit

White tea is a real tea leaf, so this is not a caffeine-free infusion the way a pure fruit blend is. The leaf is one component in a mix that is mostly fruit and spice, and that is rather the point of it: a fruity winter cup with some tea character behind it rather than none at all.

Water at 80°C, not boiling

Use one teaspoon per cup and water at around 80°C, just off the boil, then steep for three to five minutes. Fully boiling water pushes white tea towards bitterness and this blend does not need the help. For iced tea, measure a little more loose tea per litre, let it cool, and add fresh fruit if you like.

Specifications

• Type: fruit infusion on a white tea base, loose-leaf
• Net weight: 100 g
• Ingredients: apple pieces, pineapple, rosehip, cardamom, cinnamon, beetroot, black pepper, cornflower petals
• Flavourings: natural flavouring, flavouring, natural orange flavouring, natural cinnamon flavouring
• Contains caffeine, from the white tea base
• Brewing: one teaspoon per cup, about 80°C, three to five minutes
• Produced in the Netherlands