Tea at breakfast in your guest house
Tea: a delicious beverage
The breakfast served at the Bruyères du Mont, bed and breakfast, I selected at Bio-coop Avranches a large selection of teas from the "Gardens of Gaia".
According to your desire of the moment and your tastes you will find on your table:
- Black tea breakfast: delicious and tonic mixture with a slightly spicy taste.
- Black babushka tea: citrus essence dominated by the scent of bergamot.
- Lapsang souchong black tea: intense and aromatic with a subtle spruce fragrance (perfect for a salty breakfast)
- Black tea "My love": Darjeeling blend giving a note of ripe fruit
- Green tea: Gunpowder: delicious green tea from China
- Green tea "Tendres moments" with a sweet vanilla scent.
Some are the legends telling the birth of tea, it seems that the shrubs are from China and history
tea dates back to 2727 BCE.
First consumed for its stimulating and medicinal properties, it evolves towards a more popular use during the dynasty of the Tang (618-907) to become a refined element of everyday life. It was from the 16th century that Europe discovered tea. One of the first amateurs was Louis XIV, Racine was also a faithful follower as well as Me de Sévigné and one even says that the Cardinal Mazarin used it to cure his gout ...
Today, tea is grown in about forty tropical countries (China, India, Kenya, Sri Lanka), it is the drink most consumed after water: 15,000 cups per second. Tea, from an evergreen shrub: Camellia
sinensis has 2 main varieties, that of China with green leaf and small and that of Assam wider and fleshy. Green tea, white tea, black tea ... are all varieties from a single plant that according to more or less transformations, the shaping and according to the land we obtain a palette of unlimited tastes and wines ...
Comptoir de la Bio, 16 Av. Of the Leclerc Division, 50300 Avranches (Bio-coop)
Les Jardins de Gaia, high quality organic and fair-trade teas. Photo credits.