What is White Chocolate Tea?

White Chocolate tea from Rosie Lea Tea is a green tea blend with a chocolate and creamy flavour. Although chocolate goes really well with tea, it’s mostly blended with black, rather than green tea. This tea contains chun mei green tea, cocoa nibs, really beautiful large cocoa husks, jasmine blossoms, desiccated coconut and natural flavourings. A lot of creamy and cocoa ingredients to create a flavour reminiscent of white chocolate.

If you are an avid tea drinker, you’ve probably tried chun mei (or chunmee) green tea already, if not pure, then undoubtedly in some flavoured tea blend. Cocoa husks and cocoa nibs give a wonderful cocoa scent to this blend and look very pretty, too.

What’s the flavour like?

Since White Chocolate is a green tea blend, the best temperature for steeping will be at around 75-80 degrees Celsius. Use 1 teaspoon per cup of water and steep for 2-3 minutes.

What’s really interesting about this tea is that it’s blended with Chinese chun mei green tea, which is often used in tea blends. But in many blends, it tends to be overpowering, strong and even bitter. White Chocolate tea is the complete opposite. In fact, without an ingredient list, it would be difficult to say you are drinking chun mei. More experienced tea drinkers may notice a light smokiness lingering in the background and specific depth, which is very common in a chun mei tea. Cocoa husks give the most intense note that blends well into a mellow green tea base.

Which condiments are the best for White Chocolate tea?

You won’t be needing any condiments with this tea, but the flavour profile makes it great for tea drinkers that enjoy adding sweeteners. What’s super great about this tea blend is that it’s one of the rare teas you can actually drink with a splash of milk. Most green teas are either too light, or to grassy and vegetal for milk. When choosing the right green tea for milk, colour matters too. Because it brews into a tea with an intense orange-yellow colour, chun mei really is a wonderful choice for this blend. With a splash of coffee creamer, cocoa notes really shine through, and White Chocolate tea actually looks like a cup of hot white chocolate.

Chun Mei tea is strong enough to be used for making a pink tea, a super unique type of milk tea.

White Chocolate is a very delicate and light tea, but strong and deep enough to enjoy it with milk. Who would enjoy it? Tea drinkers that like gentle, mellow and deep green teas more than fresh, fruity and vegetal greens. This blend would be a great option for afternoon tea times as well, and amazing as a morning cuppa.

Read more – Green Tea – The Ultimate Guide

Tea Recap

Water or milk? Water or milk.

Day or night? Day.

Hot or iced? Hot.

Sweetened or Pure? Pure or sweetened.

Caffeine? Yes

What’s the price? Starting from 3.00 GBP.

Where to buy? Get White Chocolate Tea from Rosie Lea Tea website.

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What is White Christmas tea?

White Christmas comes from Rosie Lea Tea, a UK tea shop with many unique blends, including a whole range of teas inspired by literature and desserts. This Christmas tea is unique too. White tea holiday blends are far less common than black tea and fruit tea blends. What’s makes white tea especially great for winter blends is that it can offer an amazing opportunity to bring snowy lightness into a cup.

This festive tea blend really smells like white Christmas. Because of cinnamon chips, orange peel and cloves, at first, this tea may look like a blend of common festive ingredients. But then, there are pine needles and sugar stars, and together with other ingredients, they create a festive blend that gives a feeling of strolling through a pine wood forest covered in snow.

Pine needles are still not a common ingredient in tea blends. They can be used together with other ingredients or on its own as an herbal tea.

Clove may be the most prominent scent, but this is not just a typical spiced tea with cloves. Together with pine needles and white tea, it creates a scent that welcoming, warming and reminding of that feeling you get when you bring a Christmas tree into your home.

How to brew this tea?

White Christmas is a white tea blend, keep the water temperature below 80 degrees Celsius. Step 1-2 teaspoon of tea leaves per cup of water at 80-85 degrees Celsius for 3 minutes.

It’s a very delicate, but festive blend with no bitterness and a balanced light flavour. None of the ingredients are overpowering, and together they create a gentle warming hug in a cup with very light sweet notes, rather than a heavily spiced tea.

Orange peel is a wonderful ingredient for blends that require lower water temperatures, as it will give delicate notes without overpowering the blend.

This tea is very easy to drink and is best served with no condiments. You can re-steep the same tea leaves, without losing light and festive flavour.

This tea would be great for tea drinkers that love the scent of Christmas trees, spiced teas and more delicate gentler blends.

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