Flavoured white tea is a family that Mariage Frères has built around imperial white peony, flavoured with fruit, flowers, plants or spices. Thé Blanc au Tibet is one of its richest faces: spicy, fruity and floral inflections, both soft and invigorating, of Bourbon vanilla, jasmine, mandarin, rose and bergamot.

The base is a white tea, made of young leaves and buds whose floral subtlety blends, in a crystal-clear infusion, with the added flavours. The ingredients are tea, rose, marigold and flavouring; the blend may contain traces of nuts, and our product sheet classifies it among teas with low caffeine content.

The liquor is clear and velvety, and unfolds its notes in order: bergamot and mandarin first, lively, then rose and jasmine, and finally vanilla, which rounds off the finish. Nothing is cloying; everything is in nuance, in keeping with the white tea that carries these fragrances.

It is an afternoon tea, to be drunk plain, hot, taking one’s time. It goes with a dry biscuit, fresh fruit, a pastry with orange blossom, or can be enjoyed on its own. Iced, it keeps its citrus and rose and becomes very refreshing.

The measure is generous, as for all white teas, whose leaf is light and voluminous: allow 5 g per 200 ml of water at 85 °C and five minutes of infusion. Thé Blanc au Tibet is weighed and bagged to order in our shops in Bordeaux and Nice, from the 5 g sample to the kilo, and keeps in an airtight container, away from light.