Watermelon Lime Green Tea

Description

🌿 Green Tea🍉 Watermelon & Lime❄️ Built for Iced🌿 Loose Leaf

The summer-glass cup — Chinese green tea with watermelon and lime, the iced-brew built for the picnic jug.

Some teas are built for the kettle and the mug; this one is built for the jug, the ice and the porch chair. A clean Chinese green tea base sits underneath — bright, slightly grassy — and on top, dried watermelon and lime peel turn the cup into something closer to fruit water than to a hot tea. It works hot for fifteen minutes a year; the rest of the year, it lives in the fridge.

The watermelon comes through gently, the way watermelon comes through anything — a soft, naturally sweet hint rather than a candied burst. Lime peel adds the bright top note that keeps the cup from going slack. Lower in caffeine than a black tea, drinks like a flavoured water without the syrup.

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Chinese Green Base

Pan-fired leaf, bright and clean — iced-friendly

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Real Watermelon

Dried fruit pieces, soft natural sweetness

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Iced or Cold-Brew

Hot is fine; iced is where it belongs

✨The Sampson Promise

We only put ingredients in our products that we would use on our own family. Every ingredient has a purpose. If it doesn’t need to be there, it isn’t.

Type

Green Tea (flavoured)

Caffeine

Low–Medium

Best Time

Iced, summer

Format

Loose Leaf

Steep Time

2–3 min hot, overnight cold

Servings

~25 cups (50g)

Tasting Notes

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Lime-Melon Top

Aroma

The aroma walks in fresh and faintly tropical — lime peel sits brightest on top, watermelon’s soft sweetness sits behind it. Reads more cocktail than tea.

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Bright Light Body

Body

The green tea base brews bright and clean, the body just structured enough to carry the fruit. Cold, the watermelon sweetness comes forward; hot, the green leaf does.

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Clean Sweet Finish

Aftertaste

Closes naturally sweet from the dried fruit, no candy edge. Refreshing rather than rich — the cup leaves the mouth feeling rinsed rather than coated.

How to Brew

01

For Hot Tea

1 heaped tsp per 8oz cup, ~80°C water, 2–3 minutes. Don’t over-steep — green tea past four minutes turns astringent.

02

For Iced (Hot Method)

Brew double-strength hot, sweeten lightly with honey while warm, then pour over ice. The watermelon comes through cleaner cold than hot.

03

For Cold-Brew

1 tablespoon per litre of cold water, in a jug overnight in the fridge. Strain in the morning. Drinks like a fruit water — built for the picnic.

Water

~80°C / cold

Time

2–3 min / 8 hrs

Per Cup

1 heaped tsp

A sprig of fresh mint and a slice of lime in the iced glass takes the cup somewhere closer to a cocktail than a tea. Pour it for guests on a hot day instead of lemonade — same idea, no sugar required.

About the Tea

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Chinese Green Tea

The Base

Pan-fired Chinese green leaf — the same wok-rolled style used in Sampson’s Lucky Dragon and Long Island Strawberry. The cup brews bright and clean, the perfect canvas for fruit.

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Watermelon & Lime

The Fruit

Dried watermelon pieces and cut lime peel are the two flavours that define the cup. Watermelon adds the soft natural sweetness; lime peel keeps the cup bright. Real fruit, not just flavour drops.

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Hibiscus Touch

The Lift

A small accent of hibiscus adds a gentle pink tint when iced and a clean tart edge that keeps the watermelon’s sweetness from going slack. The same lift hibiscus brings to a Sangria or a karkadeh.

In the tin

Green tea, watermelon pieces, lime peel, hibiscus, natural watermelon and lime flavours.

Origin & Sourcing

Built on Chinese pan-fired green tea — bright and clean — with dried watermelon pieces, cut lime peel and a small accent of hibiscus. Designed for iced drinking and cold-brew jugs more than for hot mugs. Lower in caffeine than a black tea, blended in small batches for the Sampson shelf.