Peppermint Decaffeinated Green Tea

A light decaffeinated sencha-style green tea layered with cool peppermint and delicate chamomile—a fresh, clean cup where crisp mint meets a soft floral finish.

The Experience

Peppermint Decaffeinated Green Tea brings together three distinctly different ingredients in a beautifully balanced cup: decaffeinated green tea, peppermint leaves, and chamomile petals.

The sencha-style green tea provides a light, fresh, gently vegetal foundation. Peppermint immediately lifts the cup with its cool, crisp, aromatic character, while chamomile softens the edges with subtle floral and lightly fruity notes.

The result is refreshing rather than aggressively minty, gently floral without becoming perfumed, and light enough for easy sipping throughout the day. With significantly less caffeine than traditional green tea, it's an especially appealing choice when you want the character of real tea in a gentler cup.

Tasting Notes

Top: Cool peppermint • Fresh herbs
Mid: Light green tea • Gentle vegetal notes
Finish: Chamomile • Soft floral • Clean mint
Body: Light

Why You’ll Love It

• Decaffeinated sencha-style green-tea base
• Real peppermint leaves and chamomile petals
• Cool and refreshing without overwhelming the tea
• Light-bodied with a clean finish
• Significantly less caffeine than traditional green tea
• Delicious hot or iced
• A fresh alternative to fruit-forward decaf blends
• Three ingredients working in distinctly different layers

Tea, Style & Ingredients

Tea Type: Decaffeinated Green Tea Blend
Processing: Non-fermented, traditionally steamed, pan-dried, and polished
Tea Style: Sencha — Japan Spec
Origins: India, U.S.A. & Egypt
Elevation: Approximately 1,000–1,500 m (~3,300–5,000 ft)
Ingredients: Decaffeinated green tea, peppermint leaves, chamomile petals
Caffeine: Decaffeinated*
Body: Light

*Decaffeinated green tea is not necessarily caffeine-free; small residual amounts of caffeine may remain after processing.

How to Brew

Green tea benefits from cooler water and a shorter infusion than black tea. Use 1 heaping teaspoon with The Perfect Measure Spoon per 8 oz / 237 ml of water at 185°F / 85°C.

Mild: 1–2 minutes
Medium: 2–3 minutes
Strong: 3–5 minutes

For your first cup, we recommend approximately 2–3 minutes. This allows the peppermint to open while preserving the softer green-tea and chamomile notes underneath. For iced tea, brew slightly stronger before pouring over ice.

Perfect For

Peppermint Decaf Green is particularly enjoyable for afternoon or evening sipping, after a meal, warm-weather iced tea, or anytime you want something fresh and lighter than a traditional black tea. Pair it with fresh fruit, cucumber sandwiches, shortbread, mild cheeses, simple salads, lemon pastries, or light rice and vegetable dishes.

Three Ingredients, Three Roles

One of the pleasures of a relatively simple blend is that you can actually identify what each ingredient contributes.

• Decaffeinated Green Tea → light body, vegetal structure, and the unmistakable character of genuine tea
• Peppermint → cool aromatics, freshness, and the dominant first impression
• Chamomile → softer floral and lightly fruity notes that round out the mint

The peppermint naturally gets your attention first, but don't stop there. Allow the tea to cool slightly and notice what appears underneath it: Cool mint → fresh green tea → soft chamomile → clean herbal finish. That progression is what makes the blend more interesting than simply adding peppermint to hot water.

What Is Sencha-Style Green Tea?

Sencha is most closely associated with Japanese green-tea tradition and is known for a fresh, vegetal style created through processing that prevents significant oxidation.

The base used here is identified as “Sencha — Japan Spec,” with the supplied origin information listing India rather than Japan. That's an important distinction: the tea is made in a sencha-style specification; we would not describe it as Japanese-grown sencha. That may sound like a small detail, but origin and processing style aren't interchangeable. Being precise about that distinction is part of understanding what is actually in your cup.

Why Brew It at 185°F Instead of Boiling?

This tea contains real green tea, so water temperature matters. Boiling water can extract bitter and astringent compounds very quickly from green tea, potentially overwhelming the lighter vegetal character and delicate chamomile.

At approximately 185°F / 85°C, you give the three components more room to express themselves individually. Peppermint is assertive enough that it doesn't need boiling water to make itself known.

How Is It Decaffeinated?

According to the producer, the green-tea base is decaffeinated using a CO₂ process. Carbon dioxide is circulated under pressure to extract most of the caffeine from the tea.

Decaffeination inevitably alters tea to some degree, but the relatively light character of the resulting green tea makes it particularly useful as a foundation for botanicals such as peppermint and chamomile. The goal isn't to disguise the fact that this is decaf. It's to create a balanced cup in which the green tea still contributes something meaningful alongside the herbs.

Peppermint Decaf Green vs. Peppermint Herbal Tea

These aren't the same kind of beverage. A pure peppermint herbal infusion contains peppermint but no leaves from the tea plant. Peppermint Decaf Green contains genuine Camellia sinensis green tea along with peppermint and chamomile. That means this cup has a little more structure and complexity:

• Pure Peppermint Herbal - Cooling • Intensely minty • Naturally caffeine-free
  → Best when peppermint itself is what you want
• Peppermint Decaffeinated Green Tea - Mint • Green tea • Chamomile
  → Best when you want refreshing peppermint layered over the character of real tea

Because this blend contains decaffeinated green tea, it may still contain a small amount of residual caffeine.

Peppermint vs. Chamomile

These two herbs are often associated with herbal teas, but they're almost opposites from a sensory perspective.

• Peppermint is cool, bright, assertive, and immediately aromatic.
• Chamomile is soft, floral, gently fruity, and much quieter.

Here, the chamomile isn't intended to compete with the peppermint. Its role is to soften the blend and give the finish a more rounded character. That contrast is one of the reasons this seemingly simple three-ingredient tea works so well.

Hot or Iced?

This blend changes noticeably with temperature.

• Hot: Chamomile becomes more apparent, and the overall cup feels softer and more aromatic.
• Iced: Peppermint becomes especially crisp and refreshing, while the green-tea base provides more structure than a simple mint infusion.

For iced preparation, brew slightly stronger than usual before pouring over plenty of ice.

Packaging: Our loose teas are sold by the ounce and packaged in food-grade resealable bags.

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