Cardamom Macchiato

#tiffanys2021sipdown Tea #127 overall / Tea #43 for March

Wednesday 3/31/21 — DT Cardamom Macchiato (2 5g sample packets) .. love the “desperate” times at the end of the month. Made this with some foamy hot half&half (aka cream) as a hot latte for Micah this morning (if I’m home in the morning I always make him a cold or hot latte to start off his work remote day).

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Notes of coffee, weird cloying sweetness in there.

Bought this for my sister, and she let me try a cup. It’s really pretty good! Nice cardamom flavor, plus some coffee. It doesn’t lack any depth. It makes a nice latte and smells amazing. Second steep is tasty as well.

I like this tea. It kind of reminds me of drinking coffee. Very strong coffee bean scent and flavor. It is very sweet.

Cold brew in oat milk overnight.

Not much to say, it is a tea that taste like coffee with a sweet bitterness with a touch of sweet malt and that is slightly sour. Taste too much like coffee, I can’t distinguish the black and white tea in it - The price is too high for that one. However, I will revisit this one with different parameters it may taste better, will see. WATER USED: Nestle Pure Life

I really enjoyed this one, although I wish the coffee flavor would pop a little bit more. I didn’t think I’d like cardamom, but I’m learning I actually do. I got this on sale from David’s tea, anything with coffee beans is a go to for me. I think I would purchase this again.

(DavidsTea 49)

My opinion holds, here. It’s alright, but nothing I’d pick up again, despite typically enjoying cardamom-heavy blends. It’s just not interesting enough – a bit of coffee bean and cardamom infused into water. It did just occur to me that due to the weight of the cardamom pods and coffee beans, perhaps I’m horribly underleafing? Maybe I’ll remember and use less water for the final cup of it

As a hybrid coffee-tea lover, I thought Id really love this tea. I wasn’t impressed though. really odd combo with the coffee taste and white tea. Not for me.

Tricky review, this one.

First off, it’s a white chai. I’m a new convert to white chai’s, where my partner decided all he drinks is white tea. So, I had to figure out a way to combine my love of chai with something he’d drink.

This fits the bill…. sort of.

I mean, there’s ALSO black tea in here, and then…. big crescendo… there’s also COFFEE.

GASP.

C’mon tea lovers. It’s a macchiato.

Still, I’m all… what?! Tea AND coffee. Sacriledge!

Next up in the melange of weirdness? It has an odd assortment of ingredients. Apple was the strangest for me (I’m not sure how it fits, other than perhaps as a natural sweetener), although the rosehips also made me go… hmmm.

Now I really want to try it.

Yep, yep, yep.

First cup was straight tea, nothing added, no sweetener.

All I can say is… this tea surprised me.

It DOES taste like a macchiato. It’s definitely cardamom-heavy (bring it, I love cardamom), and I can also taste the coffee. The black tea gives it a bit of depth, and then the apple sweetens things up so I really don’t need sweetener. Although, I’m definitely adding some the next steep. Just to be sure. ;)

First cup, second steep was surprisingly similar, with some added Krisda (stevia + erythritol mix). I still craved the creaminess of a macchiato.

Darn that’s hard to spell correctly. Macchiato.

Second cup, I added heavy cream + Krisda.

OMG. This is goooooood. Like I could drink this all day and still gulp it down in one sip, gooooood.

I think, perhaps, for me…. this reminds me of a coffee my former inlaws used to make every morning. They’d grab their locally-roasted beans, grind them up with some cardamom, and then brew their coffee.

This tea, drink, whatever you want to call it at this point (it’s a bit of everything, isn’t it?) reminds me of that feeling, that moment, that….. ah….

It’s a hit for me, and a surprising one. I didn’t think I’d like this so much that I’d want to buy more.

I mean, I drink TEA people, not coffee…

1 DAVIDs Perfect Spoon in 12 oz of water and 8 oz of heavy cream, brewed three minutes, at boiling water temperature. I

f I could, I would do this at a much lower temperature, but all I have access to at this coworking space is instant boiling water. Ah, first world problems.