Winter Spice

Nice aroma of apple and cinnamon.

The taste is a light apple cider flavor, which I liked quite a bit. The apple flavor could be a little stronger, but overall, pretty good.

The tea has a too sweet apple taste, and it drowns out the cinnamon and cloves. I added some cinnamon to improve the flavor. It helped, but it was not enough to make me really like it. I much prefer the taste of their Christmas tea.

I love apple cider but it’s generally a pain in the ass to make so I was excited to get this as a Christmas gift. Smells delicious, tastes just as good. Exactly what you’d expect; apple and cinnamon. Light, warm and a lovely treat. A great way to take the chill off.

So this is essentially an apple cinnamon chamomile tisane, with some additional spices added in.

It’s quite nice actually. The spices are subtle, which allows the apple and chamomile to come to the forefront, and they go very nicely together. It’s slightly sweet, but thankfully there’s no licorice root. The spices add just a touch of warmth, and overall it has a mellow apple cider sort of vibe to it, though with the added honey and soft floral notes of the chamomile.

Very pleasant for winding down on the couch with the puglets!

Holiday grocery store teas tried: 6/19

Thanks to tea-and-cats for this tea! The chamomile base is really pleasant, and the spices are light, but really nice. I’m enjoying a cup of this warm. It’s a little fruity. I taste a nice chamomile, a little apple, and a mild warm spice. I’d consider getting a box of this for work!

You know what is worst? I have prepared this tea in a family pot and I was feeling that miserable, that I wasn’t able to enjoy it fully.

But noone was complaining it has got chamomile base. Actually, they rather liked it.

As for me, and as much I was able to notice, it was indeed nice mild tea with light sweet and red apple flavour complemented with cinnamon, but the spices were quite muted in my opinion. Age-related thing? My sickness? Dunno. Thank you anyway derk!

The more I drink this, the more I like it, both on its own and as a very hospitable home for add-ins. Last night, I steeped it in the same cup as a leftover basket of Winter Solstice (Nashville Tea Company), which features pomegranate, almonds, a little spice, and a little caramel flavoring. Tasted so good, the cup was gone before I had much time to ponder whether it worked or not.

I hurt my back a few days ago, probably by sleeping funny. Maybe that is why I am craving tea for the last few days, to get that bit of comfort.

During the winter I steeped this in hot apple juice for a sort of mulled apple cider. Today I wanted a quick and easy late lunch so I just made it in water.

It is a decent tea but it is nothing compared to Cuppageek’s evening blends like Baked Apple Pie and Spiced Fall Evenings. But it made a nice cuppa to go with a quesadilla.

I did the easy quesadilla where you just put some cheese, fold the sides in and fold the bottom up. Instead of putting it in the oven, in a panini press, or in a pan, I put it in a sandwich cage in my toaster. See how quick and easy?

And if you haven’t tried putting a smidge of Sweet Baby Ray’s bbq sauce in your quesadilla, I highly recommend it. If I am not going for quick and easy, I put sautéed onions and chicken tossed with bbq sauce, but as I said, I am going for quick and easy today!

This tea sample came from Derk and thanks again for the lovely teas! I can’t wait to try the loose leaf ones as well.

This is a lovely fall herbal bagged tea. The sweet apple flavor is spot on and the chamomile with the gentle spices feels very fall-like. It’s light in flavor but I’m really enjoying it. Fall herbal bagged teas often don’t work for me as they usually are either hibiscus heavy or have the overpoweringly sweet cinnamon flavor. I will definitely buy a box of this if I can find it!

Considering :

1) This was a depths-of-the-breakroom-cabinet score,
2) The tea has been there since I began working with the company over 2 years ago,
3) The last review for this tea was 6 years ago,

This must be pretty old. I decided to try it anyway.

It’s pretty good. It smells like a fall candle subtly spiced. Sweet chamomile-apple, papery from the teabag, a little cinnamon and very mild clove and cardamom. The sweetness transitions to a perfumey taste mid-mouth followed by a light tang in the back. I’m going to abscond with the rest of the box and put it in the tea drawer in my work corner where it will not gather dust.

For a similar tea, I prefer CuppaGeek’s Spiced Fall Evenings.