Herbal · Velay, Haute-Loire, France
Verveine du Velay
Caffeine-free
France's evening cup: lemon verbena from the high Velay plateau, bright citrus over calming green.
Recipe
- Temperature
- 95 °C · 203 °F
- Plants
- 2 g
- Water
- 250 ml
- First steep
- 5:00
- Each next steep
- +1:00
- Steeps
- 2
Suggested starting point.
Time this brew with Pekoe
Aroma notes
lemon · blossom · garden herbs
Tasting notes
bright · citrus · calming
Harvest
July–August
Making
Planting 
Harvesting 
Drying 
Sorting
Origin
Velay · France
On the high plateaus of the Velay, summer is short and the light is hard. Verbena concentrates its oils there, clean lemon from the first pour.
Lore
Aloysia citrodora crossed from South America in the 18th century and found a second home on the volcanic plateaus of the Velay. Le Puy distilled it into a liqueur in 1859; French grandmothers have steeped its leaves ever since: the tisane of long evenings.
