Chai Love

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Brand:Tiesta Tea
Style:Chai / Spiced Tea
Caffeine:Caffeinated
Region:Blend
Loose/teabag:Loose
Product page:Chai Love

This tea's info last updated: Jan. 15, 2018

Commercial Description

This smooth tasting mixture of aromatic spices will energize you from the inside out. What’s not to love?

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Reviewer pic70 Aroma: 5/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 4/5
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Appearance: Fairly saturated reddish brown. Looks pretty much the part of chai.

Aroma: Here is my conundrum. The tea smells so spicy and aromatic in the tin but the liquid is more of a black tea, malty presence with some mild cardamom.

Taste: This is a solid chai tea. It has really good malty notes but I’d like a little more spice. I’d almost like to drop some cayenne in it.

Value: I’ve reviewed a few teas from Tiesta and they are all well worth the ticket price.
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Reviewer pic74 Aroma: 8/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 3/5
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I love chai, so I tried Chai Love. It was one of the least chai-like of chais I've had, but yet, still strangely satisfying and tasty. It also had perhaps the greatest aromatic discrepancy I've encountered between dry-leaf, in-cup and wet-leaf scents.

The dry leaf is the most truly chai-like sensation (smell or taste) of the entire experience. One easily can see and identify the ingredients: black tea, ginger, cloves, green cardamom pods, cassia vera, and pink peppercorns. The dry scent in-container is almost intoxicatingly good, very much cardamom-dominant, though the pepper and cinnamon (via cassia vera leaf) are nearly nonexistent. Alas, in-cup, the scent becomes much more muted and weak, which detracts some from the overall rating. Before I sniffed the wet leaves, the flavor reminded me of a delicate chai, again cardamom-heavy, but also rather vanilla-like (despite the lack of that ingredient). Though I sweeten teas, I suspect a lot of tea drinkers who don't still will find this a sweet blend. As a side note, I mostly can't tell what the peppercorns do; only in the aftertaste was there just a mild hint of any associated warming effect.

The wet-leaf scent left an impression I cannot escape anymore, by power of suggestion...even in the taste: cola! Yes, the wet leaves smell like a strong, sweet, somewhat fruity cola. Imagine taking uncarbonated RC Cola, adding just a dab of fruit punch, heating it up, and sniffing that. Now the flavor reminds me a little of cola as well, just not as much as does the wet-leaf aroma. I'll upload a photo of the wet leaves as well, so savvier tea connoisseurs than I can deduce how such a blend would come up with such wild personality variations from dry to cup to wet-leaf. Despite all that weirdness, I'm oddly fond of this tea's unique taste, and gladly will finish the 1.9-oz./53.9-g pouch.
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