Prelude to Violet Black Tea Blend

"If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour!"

- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 1

Decadent macaroons blended with sweet violets and undertones of rich, warm vanilla sugar and earthy honeybush. The sweet and sad aroma of violets symbolize love following grief, just as Viola fell in love with Orsino after the tragic shipwreck where her twin brother was thought lost.

1-2 teaspoons in 8oz of water

Steep at 212° F for 3-5 minutes 

Ingredients: Black tea, apple pieces, sliced almonds, flavoring, mallow blossoms, freeze-dried yogurt granules (skimmed milk yogurt, sugar, maltodextrin, modified starch, acidifying agent: citric acid), honeybush tea, natural vanilla flavor, blackberry leaf, blue cornflowers.

Contains: almonds, milk

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