“Vetiver Tea Symphony No.2” — 5 tea bags

Vetiver Tea Symphony No.2 is a blended tea of vetiver, cardamom and yerba buena. The taste and aroma call up new green leaves — fresh and clear, like breathing deeply in a forest at the season when everything comes into bud.

Character of the taste

Where the ingredients come from

• Vetiver: only Japanese vetiver, grown by careful natural cultivation in Hoshino-mura, Yame, Fukuoka.
• Yerba buena: only herbs from Paysan Farm at Kahokugata in Ishikawa, which grows herbs by natural cultivation — no pesticides, no chemical fertiliser, no compost — drawing on the land’s own strength.
• Cardamom: India

How to brew it

One tea bag makes about 1.5 L of tea.

Hot

Pour 400–500 cc of boiling water into a teapot. Dry the bag after use, or simply top the pot up, and you can brew it about three times. As a guide, steep 5 minutes the first time, 7 the second and 10 the third, adjusting to taste.

Iced

Put one tea bag in a pot or pan, pour over 1–1.5 L of boiled water, and leave it about 10 minutes. Chill the brewed tea in the fridge. Whether you take the bag out first is up to you.

How it is made

• Packed by hand, with the quality of each ingredient checked as we go.
• The tea bags are made of Soilon, a biodegradable material derived from corn. It returns to the soil, and gives off no harmful substances when burned. Beyond the environmental side, it is safe to use, and it lets the tea taste more like itself.