Herbal · Baronnies provençales, Drôme, France
Tilleul des Baronnies
Caffeine-free
Linden blossom, picked two weeks a year in the hills of the Drôme: a green gold infusion, soft and honeyed.
Recipe
- Temperature
- 95 °C · 203 °F
- Plants
- 2 g
- Water
- 250 ml
- First steep
- 7:00
- Each next steep
- +1:00
- Steeps
- 2
Suggested starting point.
Time this brew with Pekoe
Aroma notes
linden blossom · honey · hay
Tasting notes
soft · honeyed · calming
Harvest
June–July
Making
Planting 
Harvesting 
Drying 
Sorting
Origin
Baronnies provençales · France
Mediterranean heat meets pre-alpine limestone here, and the linden stands on the slopes rather than in orchards. Pickers climb into the tree itself, a way of working now on the intangible heritage inventory.
Lore
Linden flowers for about two weeks, and the whole valley organizes itself around them. Every year, on the first Saturday of June, a meeting sets the day picking may start, village by village according to altitude. Buis-les-Baronnies was the capital of the trade: up to 450 metric tons in a good year, almost the entire French crop. Its linden fair was held 196 years in a row before it stopped in 2004.
