Alce Nero, Organic 'Te Nero' Black Tea Blend (EATALY collection)

Alce Nero, Organic ‘Te Nero’ Black Tea Blend (EATALY collection)

Alce Nero are organic farmers and processors who have been working since 1978 to produce delicious food, the result of farming practices that respect the land and its fertility.
 They bring together more than 1,000 farmers in Italy and over 10,000 small family-run farms in Central and South America.

For more than 40 years Alce Nero  have been choosing organic farming, nurturing the delicate balance between our Planet and its Inhabitants: this is why they have decided to produce foods which are good for both. Products made from ingredients grown without the use of synthetic chemicals, thanks to state-of-the-art agronomic capacities, with utmost respect for the land and the people who cultivate it. Products processed with techniques which protect and exalt the characteristics of our ingredients, also thanks toingredient lists which are always short and simple, free from preservatives and additives.

Alce Nero organic black tea is a blend of highly selected black teas with a deep, intense and pleasantly aromatic flavour. Black tea (plant of origin Camellia Sinensis) is the most widespread and well-known in the West. Alce Nero organic black tea is a refined selection of black tea from plantations in India which preserves all the aroma and typical taste of the plantation.

Camellia Sinensis, the plant from which tea is obtained, is an evergreen shrub, the processing of which begins when it reaches its third year of life with the manual harvest of the young leaves, which constitute the best harvest. The leaves, after the first drying, must undergo a fermentation process which takes place in a hot and humid climate to facilitate some biochemical processes within the leaves themselves, which are loaded with aromas and take on the typical dark color (hence the name tea black). After fermentation they undergo further drying.

For black tea, an infusion of 3-5 minutes is recommended, but it is good to know that theine has beneficial qualities that can be measured with careful preparation. The case contains 20 filters packaged in individual sachets. The filters are 100% compostable.