A cup like this makes its intentions clear from the first sip: green tea's grassy backbone with cinnamon's warmth and plum's soft fruit sitting on top. Cinnamon and Plum Green Tea comes from a green tea base, blended with plum, dates, spices, and cinnamon into something that reads more autumnal than the average green — the golden-yellow liquor still looks the part, but the aroma leans toward baked fruit and spice cupboard rather than fresh-cut grass alone.
Green tea itself carries a long, disputed origin story: tradition credits its discovery to the ancient Chinese emperor Shennong roughly 5,000 years ago, though how much of that is history and how much is legend is anyone's guess. Cinnamon has its own tall tales attached, including old merchant lore about the spice being guarded on mountain peaks by giant birds and pried loose with lures of ox meat — the kind of story spice traders told to keep prices high and origins mysterious. None of that explains why cinnamon, plum, and green tea work so well together, but they do. This particular blend is stocked by Tea & Coffee.
Expect a modest amount of caffeine, and drink it without milk or sugar to let the fruit and spice notes come through unmuddied. Green tea has long been drunk in the belief that it supports general wellbeing, though that's tradition talking rather than a guarantee. For brewing, use water around 90°C and steep for about three minutes — err toward the shorter end if you want the grassy notes to stay forward rather than getting swallowed by the spice.
