The air smelled of cleaning astringent and someone's overly strong yerba maté tea.

Among the classical stimulants, tea, coffee and maté are, thank goodness, almost completely harmless.

She's drinking something that is not coffee, like green tea or maté or chai.

Many days we only had an asado and maté.

We'd sit out on the stoop in Montevideo, watching people go up and down, drinking maté.