Rooibos Vanilla Chai

I didn’t think that chai teas were for me until I tried this! The aroma is great, as is the taste. The vanilla seems to calm down the spices, which is probably why it’s the only chai I’ve really liked. I think next time I’ll add a bit of sugar, but I was very pleased with this cup.

I preferred my first few cups of this. The rooibos makes it a little sweet and sometimes murky. I prefer a chai with bolder spices. This was a little too tame.

Cinnamon chai would be more accurate. Cinnamon is the dominate flavor once brewed with all the other spices and vanilla providing back up to it. Still very good and warm. The spices cover up the medical flavor roobios can have. Overall a good blend to add for a cinnamon spice.

Brewed two steepings combined into one mug from a single serve sample pack.

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An Ode to Tea, V is for rooibos Vanilla Chai by Adagio Teas (gifted by Danielle aka @teaandmeblog)

Monday 04/12 — plain and hot latte using this tea. I actually really enjoyed it because the milk and the chai spices are very nice mix for this cloudy Monday. Not getting vanilla or rooibos which is fine.

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Our foster cat had her first prospective adopter today. We’ve been fostering her since last June, and I was a nervous wreck preparing for the visit. She’s almost 4 years old and not everyone wants an adult cat, so I was feeling hesitantly hopeful. I’m an overthinker and work myself up easily, so the last 24 hours have been stressful. It turns out it wasn’t a good fit – they wanted a cat with shorter hair – so that was a bit of a disappointment, but it’s better we find someone who is sure. Anyway, now my body is coming down from its steady state of anxiety, and a cozy tea is in order.

I’ve had this one for a while. I don’t remember much about it, but this is the last of the sample so I know I’ve tried it before. I added some coconut milk to it, so now it tastes like a coconut chai. I’m a real lover of coconut chai, for sure. I won’t say it masks the other flavors, but I know it’s certainly changed the profile by adding the coconut milk. I really like it and would certainly drink it again, though I’m not sure if it’s something I’ll repurchase.

On second thought, I don’t know, it is a good option for a caffeine-free chai. The rooibos isn’t very noticeable. Maybe I’ll add another sample to my next order after all.

Welp, my Better Tea Club came two weeks early. They said it was because the shipping date is normally the 21st even though I tried to have it set up for the 6th. OOPS. Guess I will have to be canceling that. Anyway, this was actually a tea I was excited for. So here goes
Western brew: 7min, 212F, 2 tsp, 12oz.
Taste plain is… bland. You can taste the spice but it isn’t too prominent. So I latte-ed it. Two splendas, plus Almond milk. Taste now is… MMMMM. What an improvement. The sweetness really brings out the spices. I don’t get an overpowering cinnamon so that’s a plus. I’m getting cloves and cardamom. And the natural vanilla is shining through as well. I also taste… raisins? That’s a bit weird but it is there. I am very pleasantly surprised with this tea. Adagio hasn’t been impressing me lately, so to find one so satisfying is a nice change. I heartily recommend this one. Very tasty.

As a latte using hemp milk it tastes so much like an Oregon chai latte from an espresso stand, and is caffeine free.

I really like this blend. There is a nice citrus element (orange zest), some clove, a bit nutty, a whole host of chai spices, and some honey-flavoured rooibos. I usually prefer my chai teas as a honeybush or rooibos, that way I get some extra sweetness and no tannicity or bitterness.

My order to Adagio did not include any hibiscus teas, so every tea from them has been fabulous.

The steeped leaves smell of orange (and also cinnamon). The tea has a medium/light body with spice that is not overpowering. I did not get much in the way of vanilla, but I don’t think the vanilla would have made the tea better necessarily. The color of the tea liquor is medium golden. It was a lot better than I expected, as some OTHER vanilla chai teas taste sickly sweet, artificial, or overpoweringly spicy. This tea is well balanced. I will probably drink it more around Christmas. As with most rooibos teas, I like to add honey.
One note is that it does not do well resteeped.

Brew time: 8 mins 30 seconds. Temperature: 212*f.
Ingredients listed on sample bag: rooibos tea, ginger root, cinnamon bark, cloves, cardamom, orange peels, natural vanilla flavor

This tea is much more spicy than what I was expecting from a Chai beverage, but then again, I only started drinking Chai beverages in the last year…and my introduction to Chai beverages was Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Chai Tea Latte…

I drank my first cup with just a splash of cream, and my second cup with some cream and sugar. I think I will try making a tea latte next. Whenever I take a sip, the initial taste isn’t bad, but the spices really make themselves known once I swallow.