Pumpkin Spice

I’m not sure what the base tea is, but it has a very bitter edge which removes any enjoyment I might get out of this cuppa. Adding two sugars and a splash of milk improved things to a point, but now there’s kind of an oily, fake-flavouring mouthfeel that the milk seems to have made more pronounced.

All in all: Pleh. Glad I only got the seasonal sample box.

I liked this tea but I dont get a lot of cold days to drink it. It makes me feel like fall and helps to get you in the right state of mind for Halloween and Thanksgiving.

Nobody seems to love this tea, but me, but boy — I love it! Agreed, it’s not very pumpkiny, and the taste is definitely out of the ordinary, but I can’t seem to get enough of this stuff! Love it!

You need to be very careful not to overbrew it. I found the tiniest bit over 5 minutes to be too much, and it quickly gets too bitter. If you get it before you get the bitterness, I quite enjoyed it!

Excellent with milk and a little honey on a cool fall day. I miss fall!

Taken Plain and with Mild and Sugar.
Way too much spice… not enough pumpkin.
And no flavor development until milk and sugar are added. Is this a trend with flavored blacks from adagio?
Plain it just tastes like poorly spiced water.
And with milk and sugar it is totally drinkable… but not re-orderable.
sigh Of disappointment.

The aroma is fantastic but the flavor doesn’t live up to it. Not nearly as sweet as I would expect but the taste is unique enough for me to really like. The best flavor comes out when warm and not too hot. The taste is mostly of black tea with pumpkin pie flavors to it. Enjoyable but don’t set your expectations too high.

Day 1 of 2021 Adagio Advent Calendar

I bought last year’s calendar when I went to buy a bag of the recommended Reindeer fuel and it was so cheap and there was a discount.

I haven’t had new Adagio samples for years, so this is a good way to sample.

Not sure why they chose Pumpkin Spice as the first day of Christmas Advent – maybe saying goodbye to fall?

Either way, the clove smell was so strong on this one dry that I thought at first it had menthol and had to check the ingredients.

The tea is okay but milder, the clove is the only thing I really taste. Perhaps some added spice but it’s hard to tell. No pumpkin found in here by my palette. :(

Will I ever stop trying Adagio’s pumpkin teas even though I know I don’t like the pumpkin flavoring they use? No, apparently not. Not as long as they keep appearing free in TTBs like this one. I’ve rarely seen a tea with this low of a Steepster rating, so apparently I’m not alone in my feelings. The flavoring is weirdly fruity, and I don’t taste any spices. The black tea doesn’t make much of an impression either, so this is just sort of a weird, fruity tea.

Wow… I think this may actually be one of the most universally-hated teas on Steepster. I’m not sure I’ve seen so many yellow/red ratings EVER, let alone a combined score of 49 (with 7 pages of reviews!)

Anyways, I don’t think I hated it as much as most people on here, but I did struggle mightily to identify anything resembling pumpkin spice. There was a certain flavour to it, which I had difficulty identifying; I eventually settled on it being a spice mix heavy on the ginger, but I’m not convinced I’m correct. It was also somewhat astringent, but I’ll blame myself there, as I should have remembered that Adagio black bases are notoriously finicky. I have a few more bags of this (in the most adorable tin) – someone presumably offloaded this on me as it was not their favourite. I guess we’ll see how it fares the next time around!

Smells like cinnamon and something else, almost like an old lady candle but it doesn’t cross the line into overpowering and gross. Tastes better than expected. More holiday spicey vs. candle. Tried 10.2018

It took a while to get this one to wear on me since I’d been coming from a place where my only exposure to pumpkin spice tea was another brand’s very-artificial-tasting tea, and I also had a couple run-ins with getting my water temperatures down pat. Once that was done, this tea quickly became a favorite. It’s got just enough spice that it shares that warmth throughout the notes of the cup, and it’s very authentic to the pumpkin flavor. Overall, it’s a really good tea and my pumpkin-spice craving fixer.