Clinging to the slopes of the mountains of the Andes cordillera, in a place that Mariage Frères describes as strikingly beautiful, grows a Colombian green tea cultivated using responsible farming methods. The house has softened it with pink and white guavas, full of sunshine, to create Guayaba de Colombia, one of the teas in its collection of Colombian teas.

This collection brings together teas, spices and fruits from this country, a reflection of a culture the house describes as indulgent and mixed. The ingredients are tea, guava and a flavouring; the blend may contain traces of nuts. The house’s listing places it among its Jardins Premiers. Pieces of guava are scattered over the green leaf.

The liquor, which the house calls radiant, is both velvety and fruity. The green tea, brilliant, brings a vegetal freshness a little rounder than that of Asian greens, and the guava settles in with its exotic sweetness, somewhere between pear and strawberry, without any visible sugar. The finish is fresh and fruity, and evokes a tropical morning.

It is drunk during the day, plain, and in summer becomes an iced tea of great freshness, to be prepared in a jug with a few pieces of fruit. Hot, it accompanies an afternoon snack, a fruit salad, biscuits, or a fresh cheese. It will please those who love fruity green teas and seek an unexpected origin.

Allow 2.5 g per 200 ml of water at 95 °C and three minutes of infusion, no longer. Guayaba de Colombia is weighed and packed to order in our shops in Bordeaux and Nice, from the 5 g sample to the kilo, in a pouch designed to preserve its aroma; store it in a cool place, in an airtight tin.