How To Make Rooibos Tea

Hi, I'm Jemma Swallow from The Tea Box in Richmond, Surrey. I'm a tea sommelier at the specialist tea house where we serve and sell around fifty loose teas. We also do corporate tea tastings and public tea tastings.

Today, I'm going to show you a variety of teas that we sell here at the shop. I'm now going to show you how to make a Rooibos tea. It originates from South Africa, from the plant, the Red Bush, which is where Rooibos comes from.

And it is an herbal tea, or herbal infusion sometimes called a tisane. What you do is simply put your Rooibos in your pot. As you can see it's sort of almost like a sawdust type consistency, it has a very strong nutty smell to it.

You can put on a 98-degree water on this tea. It won't scald it and it's supposed to have reputed to have many health qualities. Very good for you.

You'll find it in many Chinese medicine shops. This particular tea comes out a really nice sort of red, rosy, warm colored tea, and you pour it into your cup like this. You can have it simply like this without milk and it's very healthy that way.

But if you prefer it too, you can have a little drop of milk in it as well. Many South Africans do like it like that. .