Pumpkin Spice Chai from The Tea Spot

pumpkin-spice-chai-teaTea Information:

Leaf Type:  Black Tea (Chai Tea)

Where to Buy: The Tea Spot

Tea Description:

Our seasonal Pumpkin Spice Chai may soon become your favorite tea to look forward to each Fall and Winter! This chai blend boasts a perfectly-balanced full leaf Assam black tea base with cinnamon, clove, cardamom, allspice, and pumpkin flavor to get you warmed up for Fall. This tea makes an amazing pumpkin latte with the simple addition of steamed milk. This seasonal treat will have you jumping in piles of rainbow-colored leaves in no time!

Features:

  • Premium pumpkin spice tea
  • Black tea origins: Assam, India
  • 1 LB Bulk = $0.16 / Serving
  • Gluten-free & Sugar-free

Ingredients: black tea, ginger root, cardamom, cinnamon, allspice, cloves, black pepper, pumpkin flavoring

Learn more about this tea here.

Taster’s Review:

It’s been too long since my last REALLY GREAT Pumpkin Chai and this Pumpkin Spice Chai from The Tea Spot is just what I was looking for!  Sure the ingredients include black tea, ginger root, cardamom, cinnamon, allspice, cloves, black pepper, pumpkin flavoring…but it’s much more than that.  The flavors meshed well together.  Everything was powerful but nothing overpowered anything else.  The pumpkin flavoring was outstanding!  I make special note of this because I have had some really questionable pumpkin flavors in tea over the years but this was among the best I have had!

Pumpkin Spice Chai from The Tea Spot provided me with a complete tea experience from beginning to end!  From the moment I opened the bag until long after my last sip!  It smelled wonderful, it tasted exceptional, the quality of everything was top notch, and when I was done with my last sip I craved more!  Needless to say Pumpkin Spice Chai from The Tea Spot didn’t last long in my tea stash!

 

Coconut Cabana Tea from The Tea Spot

CoconutTea Information:

Leaf Type:  Oolong Tea

Where to Buy: The Tea Spot

Tea Description:

A decadent dessert tea, to be sipped & savored. This milk oolong has a smooth yet fruity and creamy taste. It’s blended with shaved coconut to create a delicate and calming experience in aroma and flavor. It gained a large fanbase under its former name, Coconut Milky Oolong. If you love coconut milk sweets and sophisticated oolongs, this is your tea. Discover this guiltless dessert – simply extraordinary!

Features:

  • Premium milk oolong tea
  • Oolong Origin: China
  • Sample = 5 8-oz Servings
  • Tin = 53 8-oz Servings
  • 1 LB Bulk = $0.26 / Serving
  • Oolongs can aid in weight-loss
  • NOTE: contains coconut

Ingredients: oolong tea, shaved coconut, coconut flavoring

Learn more about this tea here.

Taster’s Review:

Coconut Cabana Tea from The Tea Spot is delightful in every way!  It’s been too long since my last milky oolong and even longer since my last coconut milky oolong!  This was everything I hoped it would be…smooth, sweet, toasty, nutty, creamy, milky, and more!  The aroma and taste – both – are sure to impress!

Coconut Cabana Tea from The Tea Spot may just be one of the most comforting oolongs I have ever had!  And it’s the tea that keeps on giving, too!  Not only with it’s taste and sniff but it’s multiple infusion endurance and it’s lingering loveliness that makes you crave another cup!

Coconut Cabana Tea from The Tea Spot is tasty both piping hot and refreshingly cold!  If you like Milky Ooolong Tea…I don’t think you could go wrong with Coconut Cabana Tea from The Tea Spot!

 

Meditative Mind From The Tea Spot

meditative-mind-teaTea Information:

Leaf Type:  White Tea/Green Tea Blend

Where to Buy: The Tea Spot

Tea Description:

Blender’s Notes:

Our beloved blend of pure Chinese white tea, rosebuds and jasmine pearls creates an experience of aromatherapy that sharpens the mind and arouses the senses. The exotic floral scent of night–blooming Jasmine is uplifting and soothing, and is used as an anti-depressant in herbal medicine. Rosebuds are used to ease nervous tension and stress, and have a calming effect on the mind. This combination works together to enhance the light, subtle flavor of the white tea leaves. This tea brews into a golden liquor with a very soothing fragrance, and is perfect before, during, or after a stressful day.

Features:

  • Sample = 5 8-oz Servings
  • Tins = 28 8-oz Servings
  • AND leaves can be re-infused 2-3 times!
  • 1 LB Bulk = $0.28 / Serving
  • White tea is loaded with antioxidants
  • Jasmine & rosebuds help with relaxation
  • Gluten-free & Sugar-free

Ingredients: white tea, jasmine green tea, rosebud & petals

Learn more about this tea here.

Taster’s Review:

Meditative Mind From The Tea Spot.  Let me say/write that 3 times…Meditative Mind, Meditative Mind, Meditative Mind….Ahhhhhh!  This is a wonderful name for a wonderful tea!  Meditative Mind From The Tea Spot is a white tea with jasmine green tea, rosebuds, and petals.  This is white and green tea blend.

The first thing I have to make a special note of here are the jasmine notes.  I’ve had teas where the jasmine tends to taste stale.  That is NOT the case here!  It’s incredible fresh and floral yet semi-sweet!  The Jasmine and Rose flavors dominate this as far as flavors go but the white and green teas are pretty flavorful, too!

This is a comforting tea you can unwind to.  Relax to.  Enjoy by yourself or with others.  This is delightful both hot and cold.  I believe Meditative Mind From The Tea Spot to be a crowd pleaser yet to impress those who have more specific taste buds as well.  It’s well rounded.  The flavors are not over done or over the top nor are too loud or too quiet.  The flavor, ingredients, and emotions prove this tea is rightfully named.

 

Pink Rose Lemonade from The Tea Spot

pink-rose-lemonade-teaTea Information:

Leaf Type:  Herbal/Tisane

Where to Buy: The Tea Spot

Tea Description:

Pink Rose Lemonade is a swirling collage of flowers with a hint of lemon and wintergreen. Like a fancy floral confection, this delicately handcrafted tea will refresh and soothe your palate. Pink Rose Lemonade is totally guilt-free, as it has no caffeine and is naturally sweet. Lemon, rose, mint, chamomile, and lavender spring to life in this absolutely fabulous herbal tea. Pink Rose Lemonade tastes distinctively wonderful brewed hot or cold.

Features:

  • Premium Loose Leaf Herbal Tea
  • Sample = 5 8-oz Servings
  • 1/2 LB Bulk = $0.31 / Serving
  • Naturally Caffeine Free!
  • Gluten-free & Sugar-free
  • No added flavorings

Ingredients: lemongrass, lemon myrtle, orange peel, rose petals, lemon balm, spearmint, chamomile, lavender

Learn more about this tea here.

Taster’s Review:

Pink Rose Lemonade from The Tea Spot…that just sounds lovely, doesn’t it?  Well…it IS!  I’m usually not BIG on herbal tisanes but this Pink Rose Lemonade from The Tea Spot is something that sparks my interest that is for sure!

The product description and profile said the ingredients of this herbal tisane were lemon, rose, mint, chamomile, and lavender and that it is good hot or cold.  I agree!  First I want to point out how well these 5 ingredients meshed together so nicely!  The ratio seemed to be 1/5 – 1/5 across the board…at least that is what my taste buds seemed to pick up!  I’m glad because I don’t generally like or side with chamomile flavors but if you pair chamomile with mint I’m more apt to try it.  Lemon is always a plus.  Rose and Lavender I can be hot and cold on but here it worked!

Pink Rose Lemonade from The Tea Spot is refreshing this or any time of year!  This is probably on my short list of favorite herbal tisane offerings to date!

 

 

Yun Nan Dian Hong Black Tea Golden Tip from Teavivre

Yun Nan Dian Hong Black TeaTea Information:

Leaf Type:  Black

Where to Buy:  Teavivre

Tea Description:

Dian Hong black tea, also known as Yunnan black tea, is one of China’s most famous black teas.  This is the highest grade Dian Hong generally available in China – called Golden Tip Dian Hong.  It has lots of orange pekoe in the dried tea, and brews into an absolutely great tasting, golden coloured tea, with very rich taste and aroma.

Learn more about this tea here.

Taster’s Review:

I reviewed this tea a couple of years ago, but I’m revisiting it because it’s a new year and a new harvest!  Plus, it’s a chance for me to taste this amazing tea again – how could I resist?

Because mmmmmM!  So good!

Rich!  Smooth!  Delicious.

When I first opened the sample pouch, I could smell notes of sweet molasses.  The dry leaf aroma reminds me a bit of freshly baked cookies – like rich molasses spice cookies without the strong notes of spice.  I can almost smell the cake-y notes of the cookie in the leaves!

To brew this, I used my Breville One-Touch.  The sampler pouch is just the right amount for my Breville, so I poured the contents of the pouch into the basket and added 500ml of water to the jug.  I set the parameters for 212°F and 2 1/2 minutes – and the tea came out perfectly!

This is a wonderful, full-flavored tea.  It’s nicely round.  It’s got a really robust flavor with notes of earth and leather with hints of smoke and spice.   And then I pick up on the sweet molasses-y, caramel-y notes with hints of cream.  It’s got a really delectable balance between savory and sweet.

A truly remarkable black tea – definitely something I’d recommend to all tea drinkers who are looking for something exceptionally excellent!