Janeiro green tea, a tea like a celebration
We love to take you on a journey with our elegant, bold, and luminous creations. With Janeiro, we transport you to Copacabana beach.
Based on Chinese Sencha, this bright and refreshing green tea reveals a clear liquor, with reflections of gold and fresh grass. Pineapple opens the dance: juicy, sunny, sparkling like a joyful samba. Then comes the mint, fresh yet rounded, airy, almost dancing, like a breath on the skin to the rhythm of a slow bossa nova. The whole is lively, joyful, balanced. An infusion like a non-alcoholic caipirinha, like a lambada step by the water.
Bom Dia a todos!
Rio. The sun beats down on the hot cobblestones of Santa Teresa, the turquoise or bright yellow painted walls gently peel under the flowering vines. Tagged butterflies dance on the facades, colorful fabrics float between balconies, and music escapes from half-open windows. In the air, a sweet scent of overripe fruit, fresh mint crushed between fingers, hastily sliced lime. In the market, stalls overflow with ripe mangoes, juicy pineapples, still-damp cilantro leaves, red chilies like jewels. In Lapa, after dark, glasses clink, the crowd comes alive, and drums make the sidewalks vibrate. It's a technicolor, exuberant, lively Brazil that imprints itself on the senses long before memory.
Flavors in green and yellow
Everywhere, Agnès finds this duo: pineapple and mint. In glasses of suco de abacaxi com hortelã, which people drink right on the street, iced, tangy, invigorating. In pineapple upside-down cakes, still warm, served with a mint leaf for decoration. In a sweet and sour chutney with ginger shards, which accompanied a grilled skewer on a beach in Bahia. Or even in a tropical fruit salad, enhanced with a drizzle of cane syrup and lime zest. It is these simple and sincere combinations, gourmet yet always full of energy, that inspired her to create Janeiro: a green tea like a non-alcoholic caipirinha, both joyful, refreshing, and precise. An infused tribute to the perfumes of a country and the subtle art of translating them into a cup.
One liquor, a thousand variations
Janeiro lends itself to a thousand variations: cold-infused, it becomes a brilliant iced tea, to be served with fresh pineapple slices and a few crushed mint leaves. Still iced, it reveals rounder, fruitier notes: perfect for accompanying a summer brunch or a siesta in the shade. And for the most audacious, it transforms into a festive granita: a concentrated infusion, sweetened just enough, frozen then scraped with a fork, and enhanced, why not, with a hint of cachaça and lime. A frosted, sweet and mischievous caipirinha, to be enjoyed with a small spoon or sipped slowly, like a forró tune at the end of the day.
