Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Black
Where to Buy: World Cup of Tea
Product Description:
Our exciting blend of full-bodied black teas and fragrant, exotic spices is excellent with savory foods or as a dessert tea.
Taster’s Review:
This is a really tasty chai.
The black tea base is a robust blend of black teas. It provides a strong taste which stands up well to the strength of the spices in this tea. I don’t taste any bitterness to this cup, although there is a fair amount of astringency.
I am tasting a licorice-y kind of taste in the foreground, so I suspect that there is either licorice root or perhaps star anise in this blend. The other spices that are notable are the cardamom and cinnamon. I don’t taste much ginger in this blend. I would categorize this spice blend as a warm but not spicy-hot. The strong licorice tone to these give it more of a sweet, slightly sharp taste over the usual peppery ginger chai that I often drink.
That is not to say that one is better than the other, it is merely intended to point out the differences this chai offers. I like spicy-hot chai blends, but I also am quite fond of licorice so this tea appeals to me too.
I drank this tea with just a spoonful of turbinado sugar, but I suspect that this would also make a very yummy latte. Since it’s summer – try blending a strong concentration of the chai with some ice cubes and milk for a iced chai latte. Or better still – serve the concentrated chai warm with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream and let the ice cream cool it! YUM!
