Vanilla Coconut White

Vanilla Coconut blends Pai Mu Tan with coconut shreds, blue mallow, rose buds, and vanilla to create a light, floral cup with notes of vanilla and coconut.

All about Vanilla Coconut White, Loose Leaf White Tea

What it’s like, and how to make it

CaffeineLow caffeine

TypeWhite

FlavourVanilla, coconut

CharacterFloral

What’s in itPai Mu Tan, coconut shreds, blue mallow, rose buds, vanilla

Perfect for

Beginners
Iced tea

How to brew it

175°F / 80°C
Steep 4–5 minutes
Use 2 tsp per 8oz, the leaf is fluffy
The longest steep at the lowest heat; never boiling

Beyond the cup

The white tea that thinks it’s a latte. Coconut and vanilla make this the gateway tea for coffee drinkers. Makes a stunning iced tea – the tropical flavors explode cold. Steep into cream for a coconut vanilla panna cotta, or use as a coconut rice cooking liquid for Thai-inspired dishes.

Vanilla Coconut White loose leaf tea, shown over a chalk-and-watercolour illustration

Illustration: Vanilla Coconut White with Réunion, the old Île Bourbon, in 1841

What’s in it

Every herb in the blend, and where to read about it on its own.

Herb · Caffeine-free

Rose Petals
Rosa gallica
The honest assessment: rose petal tea's primary value is cultural, sensory, and ritualistic rather than pharmacological. Essential oil content in petals is vanishingly small (4,000 kg of flowers yields 1 kg of oil), so virtually all volatile terpenoids are lost in tea preparation. What the...
Delicate, floral, slightly sweet, fragrant, subtle
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Tea · Contains caffeine

White Tea
Camellia sinensis
The least-handled tea there is: picked, withered, dried, and nothing else — no rolling, no pan, no fixing. What you taste is close to what the leaf tasted like on the bush. Silver Needle is buds only; Pai Mu Tan, or White Peony, is buds...
Honey, melon, hay and fresh flowers; a pale gold cup and a very quiet one
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Nut & seed · Caffeine-free

Coconut
Cocos nucifera
Desiccated coconut — grated and dehydrated coconut meat — in eight products. It does two things in a blend: it adds a creamy, faintly sweet note that suggests milk in a cup that has none, and because it holds fat, it gives the infusion a...
Creamy and faintly sweet with a toasted edge; gives an infusion body where a dried fruit cannot
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Flower · Caffeine-free

Blue Mallow
Malva sylvestris
Reddish-purple petals with dark stripes that do something no other ingredient in this shop does: brewed on their own they give a blue-violet cup, and the colour shifts when you add something acid. That is not a trick — the flowers' pigment is pH-sensitive enough...
Very mild and faintly sweet, with a soft, slightly slippery body from the plant's mucilage
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Flavouring · Caffeine-free

Vanilla
Vanilla planifolia
The cured seed pod of an orchid, and the second-most expensive spice in the world after saffron. Twelve products carry it. In a blend vanilla does something no other ingredient does: it makes everything beside it taste rounder and sweeter without adding sugar, which is...
Sweet, creamy and floral with a woody depth; it rounds out everything beside it
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What it goes with

The most versatile white tea in the shop. Sip alongside Thai coconut soup, banana bread, or anything with vanilla. Pair with our Cardamom for a spiced latte, our Thai Green Curry Powder for a full Southeast Asian dinner, or our Vanilla Bean for baking that smells like a warm kitchen.

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