Yogi Tea Organic Bedtime, 17 Tea Bags 30.6g

Yogi Tea Organic Bedtime, in brief.

Yogi Tea Organic Bedtime is the late-evening multi-herb Ayurvedic herbal from Yogi Tea, the German-American Ayurvedic tea brand, built on camomile, lemon balm, valerian and fennel with cinnamon, cardamom, liquorice and other supporting Ayurvedic herbs, picked into the teas.co.uk curator selection as the proper Ayurvedic-style alternative to the Pukka Night Time or the Twinings Sleep Valerian bedtime blends.

The camomile and lemon balm do the soft floral structural work, giving the cup its familiar pale-gold colour and gentle honeyed character, while the valerian sits underneath as the earthy musky backbone that defines a proper valerian-led bedtime cup. The fennel adds a soft natural sweetness, the cinnamon and cardamom bring a faint warming spice and the liquorice rounds the cup with its naturally sweet root note. Caffeine-free, the brand pitches the recipe as a proper Ayurvedic late-evening cup rather than a one-off sleep aid.

A seventeen-bag Yogi Tea household pack at a premium price for the organic-Ayurvedic tier, the dressier bedtime cup for any household interested in the German-American Ayurvedic interpretation of the standard supermarket Sleep or Bedtime herbal blends, the brand's reputation for proper organic-certified Ayurvedic recipes making this a worthwhile alternative to the standard European bedtime supermarket bags. 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 the nineteen sixties and seventies bringing the Ayurvedic herbal philosophy to the West, and the brand has held its place across the European herbal aisle for several decades on the strength of the recipes alone, the Bedtime blend in particular being one of the longest-running and most widely sold bedtime herbal cups across continental Europe, the brand selling under the Yogi name across multiple markets globally.

Curator notes: we assessed the tasting profile editorially, keeping the pack format beside the brand's spec sheet, and then checked it with test brews using the brand's suggested steep and water temperature. The Q and A tab beneath carries more on storage, freshness and brewing temperatures.