This Vanilla Green Tea is made with a base of premium, high grown Hyson gunpowder from Sri Lanka with pure vanilla extract to create a cup that is light and intensely refreshing with astringent notes of orchid and honey.  Vanilla green tea brews a sweet flavory vanilla which gives this tea depth and character.  The aroma almost shouts "welcome home".

 Background of Tea:  Vanilla is a powerful commodity.  The small black pods have helped build civilizations, create on of the largest brands known to human kind and nearly bankrupt a country-a lot for the little pod of the vanilla orchid!  When the Spanish Conquistadors first stumbled up it in the "New World" Vanilla was already responsible for a huge portion of the Aztec economy.  The Aztec's grew the pod, known as tlilxochitl or "black flower", in large forest plantations.  The Spaniards, catching a whiff of the sweet scent and the profits to be made, carted the "black flower" with them to Spain changing its name to Vanilla, or little pod as they did.