Yogi Tea Organic Alkaline Herbs, 17 Tea Bags 35.7g

Yogi Tea Organic Alkaline Herbs, in brief.

Yogi Tea Organic Alkaline Herbs is Yogi Tea's Ayurvedic blend from the German American brand, built on lemongrass, fennel, peppermint and ginger, joined by cinnamon, cardamom, liquorice and further Ayurvedic herbs; the teas.co.uk curators picked it as their Ayurvedic style alternative to Pukka or Twinings multi herb blends.

The recipe draws on the Ayurvedic herbal tradition rather than the European one, the lemongrass and fennel doing the bright structural work on top of the cup, while the peppermint adds a cooling middle layer and the ginger sits underneath as a faint warming spice. The cinnamon, cardamom and liquorice round the cup with a sweet-and-warm backbone that distinguishes it from a plain peppermint or a plain fennel herbal. Caffeine-free across the cup, the brand pitches the recipe as a daily Ayurvedic cup rather than a one-off treatment.

A 17 bag household pack at a premium price for organic Ayurvedic tea; Twinings Superblends and the Pukka multi herb range are the usual alternatives, and this cup drinks cleaner than cheaper square bag blends where the leaf has less room. Yogi Tea is one of the largest Ayurvedic-tradition herbal brands in the European market, the line drawing on the work of the late Yogi Bhajan in bringing the herbal philosophy to the West.

Curator notes: we wrote the tasting profile ourselves, using today's retail pack and the brand's specification as the yardstick, and cups brewed with the recommended steep time and water temperature as the test. You will find storage advice, freshness windows and brewing temperatures covered again in the Q and A tab underneath.