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Ethiopian Koseret Loose Leaf Herbal Tea

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This may well blow your mind. A herbal infusion with stunning flavours of tomato vine, basil and lemon. It comes from the Kafa Biosphere Reserve in Ethiopia.

Grown by an all-woman cooperative of organic smallholding farmers.

Naturally caffeine free.

Koseret has complex and exciting flavours that are utterly unique. Described by a Noma chef as like a hit of slapped basil over fresh tomato. The taste is sweet and herbaceous, with bright lemon. In cold infusion the flavour is remarkably clean and pure. Both hot and cold, it makes an extremely refreshing drink.

17p per cup based on 1g of tea per 150ml of water and 3 infusions.

Andinet Spice Cooperative, Kaffa Biosphere Reserve, Ethiopia

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Recommended Infusion Guide

  • Quantity

    For a hot infusion use 1g of leaf per 150ml of water.

    For a cold infusion use 1g per litre of water.

  • Temperature

    For the optimum infusion use 100°C water.

    For a cold infusion, fill at room temperature and place in the fridge to infuse.

  • Time

    Infuse for 1 - 3 minutes, tasting regularly.

    (This is one of the rare herbal leafs that will become bitter with longer infusion, so make sure you try little and often.)

    For a cold infusion, infuse for 8 hours or overnight.

  • Infusions

    You can infuse these herbs at least three times. With each careful infusion, different subtleties of flavour are revealed.

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How to infuse your tea is very personal, and these are just our recommendations based on experience. Please experiment with these variables to your heart's delight. These are our recommendations, not hard and fast rules. The most delicious tea is the one you love.

Our guide uses a standard tea cup size (150ml/5.5 oz) as a measure, please adjust the quantity of leaf accordingly for less or more water. Our whole loose leaves are of such a high quality that you can infuse our teas at least twice, and the second infusion is often better than the first, with different flavours revealed as the leaf softens. If you prefer your tea stronger, add more leaf, don’t leave it for longer (this will just make it bitter).

LIPPIA ADOENSIS

Verveine d’Afrique

Koseret is a unique herbal tea of the lemon verbena family. In Ethiopian culture it is traditionally taken as tea to fight off flu and is used as a herb to flavour celebratory meals.

Lippia adoensis, its botanical name, honours Augustin Lippi, a French-Italian botanist who died on a journey to visit the Ethiopian emperor in 1703. In French it's called Verveine d'Afrique.

UNITY

Andinet Spice Cooperative

Our Koseret is grown by the women of the Andinet Spice Cooperative. Andinet means "unity" in Amharic and together these women have built a cooperative. They tend small plots of land near their homes in the Kaffa Biosphere Reserve.

There are 80 women, across three cooperative groups. Most have less than a hectare of land. It is loaned to them by their husbands or fathers - mostly because the land is not in use or is unproductive. The herbs grown by the cooperatives not only create essential income for their families but also vital biodiversity.

Rare Tea donated 4000 seedlings to the cooperative in 2022.

The ladies don't have space or capacity to set up nurseries of their own right now. However, as the women generate more revenue, it encourages the men to give up more land for future nurseries and our women's plants.

Ultimately they will become entirely self-sufficient.

KAFA BIOSPHERE

Afromontane Cloud Forests

Our loose leaf Koseret is grown in the Kafa Biosphere Reserve, located in the stunning Afromontane cloud forests in southwest Ethiopia. Historically, this region was home to the Kingdom of Kaffa and is renowned as the birthplace of coffee.

The Biosphere Reserve was created to protect the biological diversity and cultural heritage of the people.

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KT
04 December 2024
Kelly T.
United States

Ethiopian Koseret

This herbal infusion is very refreshing anytime! It tastes like basil and tomato. Super good with a cheese and cracker snack.

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HC
30 June 2024
Helen C.
United States

Review of Ethiopian Koseret

I had never heard of it and wanted to try something new. I don’t enjoy classic tea so typically drink just herbal teas. This is a unique and delicious earthy addition to what I normally drink.

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KG
28 January 2024
Katie g.
United States

A wild ride!

This was one heck of a journey! I am surprised that I read the description of " tastes like drinking a tomato vine" and said to myself "yes I would like that!" I am astonished that it actually tasted like that and I am flabbergasted that I really love it!

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AK
10 April 2023
Almuth K.

What a fragrance!

Upon opening the tea package, I was greeted by a fragrance which, to me, is one of summer, sweet peach, sunshine, and so much more! It made me hasten to brew a cup: My first taste sensation was of lemon verbena (no surprise, given that Koseret is in the lemon verbena family). But there is so much more to this tea: basil, some tomato (really more the taste version of what the plant smells like), and also the peach that I smelled on the raw herb. This tea is like a taste trip into summer! So unusual, so wonderful!

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