Chocolate Pumpkin Pie

Short tasting note… it’s sooooo late! And I have an important 9am meeting! Bad boyfriend and I for passing out at midnight while watching Dr. Who…

Anyhow! This was pretty good. Travel-mugged, so I’ll have to review more thoroughly later, but I definitely tasted delicious pumpkin, spice, and some chocolate. I even got one sip that lingered with delicious chocolate/pastry flavours. Definitely a worthwhile tea; I wish I had some of the plain pumpkin pie to compare to, but that’s all gone. Either way, yum! Della Terra does pumpkin well.

Happy first day of fall! Its time to start drinking a lot of fall teas! And, right on schedule, its got cold and the skys have opened up and its been pouring rain.
This is really nice. A good blend of pumpkiny spice flavors, though I cannot say that I got any of the promised chocolate. What I do get is a little taste of citrus, which is a good addition to any pumpkin mixture, in my humbe opinion. I’ll be curious to see if later in this batch I get more of the promised chocolate, as its not registering at all right now.

Had this again as my morning cup..it’s just soo good..chocolate and pumpkin, what more could you ask for? Oh, and I really really want to try the caramel pumpkin marshmallow tea by Della Terra lol, think I will order some when I place an order for the chiffons for Christmas gifts :D yummy dessert teas for the win! See previous notes on this one :)

Geeeez this tastes extra good today….I’m talking extra, super-duper delicious. Hmmm? The power of the sipdown perhaps?

Such a yummy seasonal treat, it tastes like warmth (if that makes sense to anyone other than me, it will be a miracle). I can see myself ordering it again next Fall/Winter.

Somebody commented about making lattes in one of my tealogs for a different tea from a day or two ago, and now I have latte on the mind. If I ever figure out how to make them with minimal mess/effort, this tea is one that just seems to scream latte. Too bad I’m a lazy and impatient tea-maker – When I want tea, I want it right NOW!!! I’m very teamanding

mmmmm….. I’ll be savoring this to the last drop. Till next time dear friend

I fished out a clove. I will take the suckers out where I see them.

This is better with my ever present vanilla creamer. Last time I didn’t have any creamer because we were leaving for three weeks and didn’t want stuff growing in my fridge so we emptied everything out.

The tea is better with the creamer. It helps the mouthfeel be more like pie. Otherwise it’s a bit watery. Also, the taste is better as it cools. The last dregs in the bottom of the jar are way more awesome than the first sips.

This is yummy! A perfect way to improve upon the classic Thanksgiving dessert, in my opinion, is to add chocolate. Of course, adding chocolate is my solution to everything. Chocolate makes the world a much nicer place to be, and I’m thankful for chocolate … so it seems only fitting that chocolate SHOULD be part of this Thanksgiving tradition.

What I really like about this is that the pumpkin is a very prominent flavor. It seems too often that pumpkin pie teas are nothing more than black tea with some pumpkin pie spice, rather than actual PUMPKIN taste. Pumpkin pie spice does not equal pumpkin! I like that I taste pumpkin here.

After the tea cools slightly (it is not cold or even tepid at this point, but just not piping hot), I notice a hint of buttery pie crust. The chocolate is a strong flavor too, although, it could always use more chocolate. Always. I doubt there will ever be enough chocolate. :)

The flavor of the black tea is a little obscured with the stronger flavors of pumpkin and chocolate and spice, a little less prominent than I would like for my flavored teas, but, I still find this to be quite tasty, regardless … and something I’d be happy to drink again and again.

I just got finished writing my full-length review for this tea on SororiTea Sisters (this review will publish on the eve of the 20th), and something that I mentioned there that I will also mention here, is that the way the spices and the chocolate flavoring mingle with one another here … it gives the chocolate a sort of chocolate liqueur kind of flavor that I’m really digging. I love Godiva’s Chocolate Liqueur, but, I’m not a big alcohol fan (although I probably could become an alcoholic if I were able to – read: afford to! – keep this liqueur on hand), so I love that I can kind of experience that yummy taste via TEA which I prefer and find much more affordable too.

There is a run in my new tights and the vending machine ate my dollar. It must be a Monday…hopefully this tea helps.

Before heading out to the IRS today…shudder…to discuss a tax issue…shudder again…I treated myself to Chocolate Pumpkin Pie Tea!
It smelled just like an Autumn Pumpkin Spice Yankee Candle. You know what I’m talking about. The candle that makes your home smell like you can bake even if you never turn on the oven!

I had a very nice experience sipping a small pot of this tea.

It wasn’t too pumpkiny (great new word) or too spicy…it was just right.
Except for the part about the chocolate, which was so light that I could hardly taste it, I enjoyed the pumpkin pie and added some cream and sweetened my tea to make it really tasty.

I was all ready to write a positive review on Steepster when BAM!
Steepster Crashed! Not a good omen right before going to the IRS!

FAST FORWARD
Catching up to the review after the IRS visit which went as well as it could (I had 1 person in front of me and that’s all, so hooray for small towns!).

Steepster is finally running again and all is well with the world.

For some reason I thought I’d yet to drink this… and so I pulled it out of my sample shelf. Then I came to log it, and see that I’ve already had some (I think thanks to Dexter). So… thank you again!

This still smells delicious, although more so prior to steeping – like a spiced gingerbread cake. I love inhaling as I sip, however it’s a bit astrigent for me today. I can definitely taste the spices and a hint of pumpkin (all very lovely, almost like a nice pumpkin pie filling), and then the sweetener comes in later. I almost wish the sweetener came in a bit earlier though, to fend off the astringency. Almost wish I’d steeped this for two minutes instead of three.

I’m honestly not a fan of pumpkin at all. Before I got into baking, my mom typically made a pumpkin pie and a pecan pie for Thanksgiving and I would take pecan every time.

Chocolate with pumpkin sounded like something to try though, because I am actually in love with the Pumpkin Caramel Latte scented stuff at Bath and Body Works right now.

It’s acceptable to my taste buds, I guess. I made a full pot of it, and I’ve been sipping on it for an hour or so. I’m actually using my TV! I really can only watch Fox or The CW…it’s weird because the CW is with CBS, but I can’t pick up CBS. So I just watched Criminal Minds and quite enjoyed it. It went well with this tea.

This definitely tastes like pumpkin, and it goes so well with the chocolate flavor. The black tea is malty too and it definitely fits in. The pumpkin pie spices add a nice touch too. I can taste the nutmeg more than cinnamon.

I think I might eat a chocolate pumpkin pie if it was offered to me!