Twinings Superblends Wind Down Collection, 20 Tea Bags 33.2g
Twenty bags, but not twenty of the same thing. A selection carton moves the decision from a shop three weeks earlier to the cupboard at eleven at night, which is a far better place to make it, and it lets a household with different tastes share one box. The cost of that is restocking: when the one everybody reaches for runs out first, the carton stops being balanced and there is no way to top up a single blend. Caffeine-free throughout, soft and short in the finish, with nothing gripping the palate on the way to bed.
Twinings Superblends Wind Down Collection, in brief.
Twinings Superblends Wind Down Collection is a twenty-bag night-time selection carton from the Twinings Superblends range, holding several different wind-down infusions in one box rather than twenty bags of a single blend, picked into the teas.co.uk curator selection as the sensible way to find your evening blend before committing to a whole box of it.
Five infusions, with four envelopes of each: Unwind + Vitamin B12, Moment of Calm + Vitamin B3, Sweet Dreams, Sleep Valerian and Orange Blossom, and Sleep. All caffeine-free and suitable for vegans, per Twinings.
Twinings Superblends Wind Down Collection is a night-time selection box rather than twenty bags of one blend. One carton holds several of the brand's wind-down infusions, so the decision at the end of the evening is made at the box rather than in the shop three weeks earlier.
There are 20 individually sealed envelopes in the box, four apiece of five caffeine free herbal infusions, per Twinings: Sleep (Spiced Apple and Vanilla with Camomile and Passionflower), Sleep Valerian and Orange Blossom (with Lavender and Passionflower), Sweet Dreams (Raspberry and Apple with Passionflower and Valerian), Moment of Calm + Vitamin B3 and Unwind + Vitamin B12.
Curator notes: the tasting profile was written by us as an editorial assessment, set beside the pack format as sold today and the description the brand publishes. Wind Down Collection orders normally take 1 to 2 working days to be dispatched. Below, the questions tab goes through caffeine, steeping, iced drinks, storage and the blends in the carton in more detail.
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A collection pack solves a specific problem and creates a smaller one. It solves the problem of buying a twenty-bag box of something you turn out not to like at eleven at night, and it lets a household with different tastes share one carton. The smaller problem is that you cannot restock a favourite on its own, so when one of the blends runs out first the box stops being balanced. Twenty bags at 40g net is roughly 1.66g of dried botanicals a bag, the normal weight for a herbal infusion and heavier than a black tea bag, because dried flowers and leaves are bulky.
The Story Behind Twinings Superblends
Twinings is the family tea house trading from London since 1706, and Superblends is its functional range: infusions built around what they are for rather than around a single botanical. Wind Down is the evening end of that range. A selection carton is the range's shop window, which is exactly why it is worth buying first if you have not met these blends before, and worth skipping once you already know which one you reach for.
Take each blend's ingredient list from the current UK pack, together with the allergen advice, what the bags are made of, any marks of certification and the best before date; none of that should come from this page.
Packaging: Sealed envelopes, bags and carton do not necessarily share a disposal route, and the pack as sold now in the UK, with your local authority's guidance, shows each one.
What You Are Actually Buying
- Count and weight: twenty bags, 40g net.
- A selection, not a blend: several different wind-down infusions in one carton. That is the product. If you want twenty bags of one thing, buy the single-blend box instead.
- Caffeine: a wind-down collection is built from herbal infusions rather than tea leaf, so there is no caffeine coming from the base.
- What it is not: not a sleeping pill and not a medicine. It is a hot drink with no caffeine in it, drunk at an hour when a caffeinated one would be a poor idea.
Source: teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Twinings Superblends Wind Down Collection, 20 Tea Bags 33.2g, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Twinings
Twinings has been blending tea on London's Strand since 1706, the same address, three centuries later. Holders of the royal warrant for tea since 1837, they're the brand most-associated with Earl Grey, English Breakfast, and the polished afternoon-tea aesthetic. Wide flavoured-tea range; ethical sourcing through the Twinings Community Needs Assessment programme.
Packaging: Sealed envelopes, bags and carton do not necessarily share a disposal route, and the pack as sold now in the UK, with your local authority's guidance, shows each one.
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The taste profile
How does it compare
Herbal infusions are the opposite of green tea in one important way: they are very hard to over-brew. There is no tea leaf and therefore no tannin to turn bitter, so the usual penalty for forgetting the mug simply does not arrive. Almost every weak cup of a wind-down infusion is weak because it was rushed, not because anything went wrong.
The Last Cup of the Day
The Bigger Pot
Made with this tea
The Last Cup of the Day
How to make The Last Cup of the Day with Twinings Superblends Wind Down Collection.
- 1 bag Twinings Superblends Wind Down Collection
- 250ml just boiled water
- Honey, optional
- Pour 250ml of kettle water, boiled a moment ago, over one bag of Twinings Superblends Wind Down Collection, 20 Tea Bags 40g.
- Cover your mug with a saucer, then leave it alone for 6 minutes.
- Lift the bag out without squeezing it and drink the cup clear.
What you'll end up with: The plainest build in the list and the one this carton is for. Covering the mug is the part people skip and the part that matters.
The Two Person Pot
How to make The Two Person Pot with Twinings Superblends Wind Down Collection.
- 2 bags Twinings Superblends Wind Down Collection
- 500ml just boiled water
- A warmed teapot
- Warm the pot with a splash of boiling water first and tip it out.
- Brew 2 bags of Twinings Superblends Wind Down Collection, 20 Tea Bags 40g in 500ml of just boiled water for 6 minutes with the lid on.
- Lift both bags out together before you pour the first cup.
What you'll end up with: The second cup is still worth drinking because the bags came out. Left in, the pot keeps getting heavier while it stands.
Overnight Cold Jug
How to make an Overnight Cold Jug with Twinings Superblends Wind Down Collection.
- 4 bags Twinings Superblends Wind Down Collection
- 1 litre cold water
- Lemon, optional
- Ice to serve
- Drop 4 bags of Twinings Superblends Wind Down Collection, 20 Tea Bags 40g into a litre jug of cold water.
- Cover and leave in the fridge for 8 hours or overnight.
- Lift the bags out in the morning and keep the jug for two days.
- Serve in a glass full of ice, with a slice of lemon on top.
What you'll end up with: Rounder and sweeter than the hot version, with far less aromatic lift. Still caffeine free, so it is the jug to keep for the evening rather than the morning.
Wind Down Honey Syrup
How to make Wind Down Honey Syrup with Twinings Superblends Wind Down Collection.
- 3 bags Twinings Superblends Wind Down Collection
- 150ml just boiled water
- 3 tablespoons clear honey
- Brew 3 bags of Twinings Superblends Wind Down Collection, 20 Tea Bags 40g in 150ml of just boiled water for 10 minutes to make a concentrate.
- Lift the bags out and stir in 3 tablespoons of clear honey while the liquid is still hot.
- Cool and keep in a small jar in the fridge for a week.
- A spoonful in hot water makes a quick cup; a spoonful over yoghurt or poached pears puts the same flavour on a plate.
What you'll end up with: A jar that turns three bags into a fortnight of use, and the only sensible way to get these flavours into food.
Bedtime Herbal Milk
How to make Bedtime Herbal Milk with Twinings Superblends Wind Down Collection.
- 2 bags Twinings Superblends Wind Down Collection
- 80ml just boiled water
- 200ml milk or oat milk
- 1 teaspoon honey
- Brew 2 bags of Twinings Superblends Wind Down Collection, 20 Tea Bags 40g in only 80ml of just boiled water for 8 minutes, so the concentrate is strong enough to survive milk.
- Heat 200ml of milk or oat milk until steaming but not boiling.
- Combine the concentrate and the milk, and stir in 1 teaspoon of honey.
What you'll end up with: More filling than the plain cup and still caffeine free. The strong concentrate is the whole trick; brewed at normal strength it disappears into the milk.
Brewing the perfect cup
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Typical values per 100ml, as published | Per 100ml |
|---|---|
| Energy | 1 kcal |
| Fat | 0g |
| of which saturates | 0g |
| Carbohydrate | <0.5g |
| of which sugars | <0.5g |
| Protein | 0g |
| Salt | 0g |
Ingredient and nutrition information for this product, as published on the manufacturer's label. If this page and the pack in your hands disagree, believe the pack.
Ingredients and allergens. Twinings describes all five infusions as caffeine-free and suitable for vegans. A blend can be reformulated and its allergen advice altered, so read the UK pack on sale today before you purchase.
| Ingredient | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Wind-down herbal infusions | Not stated to us | The whole of the box. Several different blends from the Twinings Superblends evening range, each with its own ingredient list printed on the carton. |
| Tea leaf | none from the infusion base | A wind-down collection is built from herbal infusions, which is why there is no caffeine and no tannin, and why the cup is light in body however long you leave it. |
| Format | 20 bags, 40g net | Roughly 1.66g of dried botanicals a bag, the normal weight for a herbal infusion and heavier than a black tea bag because dried flowers and leaves are bulky. |
Pack: Twinings Superblends Wind Down Collection, 20 Tea Bags 40g; a caffeine free herbal selection carton. Store it sealed, cool and dry; the pack carries the best before date.
Characterising components shown. Blended by Twinings.
Sourcing & blend. Behind Twinings Superblends Wind Down Collection, 20 Tea Bags 40g stands Twinings, a family tea house that has done its trading in London since 1706. Superblends is the house's functional range, built around a stated job rather than a single botanical, and the Wind Down carton is its evening end.
What's in Twinings Superblends Wind Down Collection, 20 Tea Bags 40g, and what isn't:
- In: several different caffeine free wind-down herbal infusions in one twenty-bag carton, each with its own ingredient list on the pack.
- No added sugar in the cup: a herbal infusion brews to effectively nothing on its own. Any sweetness in the mug is either natural to the dried botanicals or something you added.
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Source: teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Twinings Superblends Wind Down Collection, 20 Tea Bags 33.2g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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