Yorkshire Tea Victoria Sponge Brew

The Tea

Here's a tea that tastes just like the delightful classic Victoria Sponge cake. How? If we told you, we'd have to lock you in our top-secret imaginary bakery. Let's just say it's a lovely Yorkshire brew flavoured with a great big slice of vanilla-y, jammy deliciousness.

Caffeine content

Caffeine in tea varies, but an average cup contains 48mg (based on 200ml water and 5 minutes of brewing).

How does it taste?

Refreshing, vanilla-y and jammy.

Ingredients & origins

Black tea from Africa and India with natural flavouring.

Pack sizes available

Teabags: 40

Storage

Store in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight.

RAINFOREST ALLIANCE

All Yorkshire Tea products are Rainforest Alliance Certified™, grown and harvested on farms and forests that follow their sustainable practices. This certification encompasses all three pillars of sustainability — social, economic, and environmental.

ETHICAL TEA PARTNERSHIP

We’re also members of the Ethical Tea Partnership – with them we are able to partner with our suppliers and other tea companies to develop and support initiatives at community level as well as responding to major social and environmental challenges that the tea industry still faces.

The box

The box is made from cartonboard, which is made from trees – a renewable resource that can easily be replenished.
This goes in your paper and cardboard recycling.

The tea bags

75% of the tea bag material is natural-based fibres: a mix of wood pulp and either abaca (a kind of banana plant) or rayon (made from woodpulp). 25% is an oil-based plastic sealing material called polypropylene, but we plan to switch that to what we now use to seal most of our other tea bags - a renewable, plant-based, industrially compostable bioplastic called Polylactic Acid (PLA), which is made from cornstarch.
At the moment, these should go in your refuse bin.

The inner wrap

This is made from metallised polypropylene (an oil-based plastic). This can be recycled by taking it to your local supermarket collection point.

what is Victoria sponge brew

To make a tea that tastes like cake, we start with tea. Yorkshire Tea to be exact; full-strength and fully satisfying. Then we mix in a little bit of natural flavouring, figuratively whipped up by our crack team of entirely pretend bakers to create a scrumptious cakey taste that’s both vanilla-tinted and jammy-toned.