Yerba Maté, or Maté Rancho, is a highly stimulative beverage, made from an alternative plant to tea found in South America, where it is extremely popular.
Especially popular in Argentina and Brazil, Yerba Maté is known to have been Ché Guevara’s favourite drink. It was originally a beverage enjoyed primarily by the South American indigenous population. It has a strong, vegetal taste and an energising effect, helping the weary gaucho through long days in the sun-baked pampas.
Maté is best enjoyed in a traditional drinking gourd and sipped slowly through a ‘bombilla‘ – that’s a stainless steel drinking straw to you and me!
Yerba Maté, or Maté Rancho, is a highly stimulative beverage, made from an alternative plant to tea found in South America, where it is extremely popular.
Especially popular in Argentina and Brazil, Yerba Maté is known to have been Ché Guevara’s favourite drink. It was originally a beverage enjoyed primarily by the South American indigenous population. It has a strong, vegetal taste and an energising effect, helping the weary gaucho through long days in the sun-baked pampas.
Maté is best enjoyed in a traditional drinking gourd and sipped slowly through a 'bombilla' - that's a stainless steel drinking straw to you and me!
Sets of a gourd, a bombilla and 500g Maté can be purchased here:
https://tchaiovna.com/shop/product/mate-gourd-bombilla-yerba-mate-set/
