Sparkling Tea Green – 5%

Sparkling Tea Grøn with Ginger and Lemongrass

Sparkling Tea Grøn is a tea cocktail made from 7 organic tea varieties with white wine and fine effervescence. Green tea, ginger, and lemongrass give it its crisp freshness. The companion for Asian cuisine, where wine often reaches its limits.

Sparkling Tea Grøn is the green cuvée from the Copenhagen Sparkling Tea Company, a sparkling tea cocktail with a moderate 5 percent alcohol. Green and white tea meet herbal tea, ginger, lemongrass, and white wine. If you have sushi or Thai cuisine on the table, you have found the right companion here.

Citrus forward, ginger finish, tea in between

The Grøn begins with citrus fruit and then adds a distinct green tea personality.

The white teas capture the acidity of the lemon juice and provide a delicate cushion underneath. Above that, ginger and lemongrass work together: one sharpens, the other perfumes. It stands fresh, crisp, and mineral in the glass, with 5.5 bar bottle pressure and an effervescence that lasts longer than in many sparkling wines.

With 6.4 milligrams of caffeine per 100 milliliters, it is the most restrained of the family – the green tea contributes less here than its powerful aroma suggests.

For sushi, sashimi, and spicy Thai cuisine

It is precisely where wine often capitulates that the Grøn plays out its strength: with heat and umami.

With spicy Thai cuisine, the lemongrass cools, while the ginger goes along with it instead of resisting. It pairs well with sushi and sashimi anyway. And because it has structure despite all its freshness, it also holds its own against heavier dishes.

How clearly this stands out was demonstrated by a dish that Simon Thrane served at Restaurant TRIO: veal sweetbreads with the Grøn, so that the acidity could counter the heavy, almost creamy taste of the offal. A trick you can try at home with fried duck liver or pork belly.

Acidity is the key to this drink in general. It cleanses the palate between two bites, it holds its own against fat and heat, and it ensures that a meal does not become tiring after the third course. This is the exact task that wine usually performs at the table – the Grøn takes it over using different means.

Serve it well-chilled at about 5 degrees in a white wine glass. If you want it completely alcohol-free, you will find the green sister in Lysegrøn, and the Rød takes over when it comes to meat and wild berries.

What the white wine is doing here

Unlike the alcohol-free varieties, the Grøn is not made with grape juice, but with organic white wine.

This is not a compromise, but a decision: wine provides acid structure and a body that juice cannot deliver, and it carries the tea aromas further into the finish. The 5 percent alcohol is roughly what a light beer brings with it – enough for structure, little enough for a second glass.

The rest is manual labor. 7 tea varieties are steeped individually, each at its own temperature and for its own steeping time, before Jacob Kocemba brings them together. Kocemba was a sommelier before he founded this house with Bo Sten Hansen in 2017, and one can tell by the Grøn that someone here has learned to think in terms of cuvées.

Afterward, the base matures in the bottle for 8 to 12 weeks. The carbonation is added, not from bottle fermentation – it must be said, because honest information tastes better than a myth.

You can read more about Kocemba and his house in the portrait of the Copenhagen Sparkling Tea Company; all varieties are waiting in the Sparkling Teas with and without alcohol.

Organic inspection body DK-BIO-100 EU – Non-EU Agriculture