Pumpkin Chai

YUMm. I got some samples from a friend and i loved it. It was that yummy chai taste but also has a sweet pumpkin, cinnamon taste. I cant wait till the fall to buy some. i’d have to say, this is my favorite tea :)

The smell of this tea has the nicest smell. It’s very spicy but the pumpkin adds a sweet flavour as well.
The flavour is a bit weaker than I thought it would be, but it has made the very top of my list. It is my ultimate tea.
Also as far as super adorable things go, this tea also has candy pumpkin pieces in it. So it looks nice, tastes nice, and smells nice.
I will never get sick of this tea and I drink it everyday!

WOW! This tea was everything I hoped for! The initial smell is sweet pumpkin pie and the taste is the same. I stepped for six minutes and added cream and sweetener. This is literally pumpkin pie in a glass! I only wish it was cooler outside so it would have the full effect, but I would drink this any time of year!

Oh my god. I love pumpkin. And chai. This tea is beyond fantastic.
I’m normally not a big fan of candies/sugar already being added to a loose-leaf tea, because that removes my ability to drink it un-sweetened. However, the pumpkin candies in this tea aren’t over-powering and just add a small hint of sweetness.
Hands down this is my favourite chai tea EVVVVVER!!

I ordered Pumpkin Chai at DAVIDsTEA in November after smelling a sample, and oh did it smell good! I drank it as a latte (with agave) hoping it would be even better than Pumpkin Spice from Starbucks. I am a huge Chai fan and I also like pumpkin, so I thought this tea would be a perfect fit for me. As I drank it, I experienced a slightly bitter taste on top of the creamy, caramelly taste that resonated in my cup. I’m hoping the tea was oversteeped, but I have a feeling the huge pumpkin chunk that I saw while my tea was steeping, was the root cause of the bitterness. I would be interested in trying this tea again to see if it does better a second time around.

So far, this is my favourite seasonal tea since I first discovered DT earlier this Spring. EETS. JUST. SEW. GUD! Such a full-bodied cup of spiced pumpkiny goodness. But the spices really come out too! I have had pumpkin chais before, but this one really does top all of them. Just looking into my tin is a pleasant experience, what with the cute little candies and the intoxicating aroma! It’s like it’s my kind of autumn in a tin (a sweet autumnm sure it helps that my favourite kind of pie is pumpkin too :P
I do not like re steeping this one though….probably because the leaves are not of that great of quality and after the first steeping all the flavour is sucked out, so there is nothing left to it after that.

I was really excited to try this tea, and while it wasn’t quite what I was expecting, I really enjoy it. Although it smells delicious, I am not really getting an overwhelming pumpkin pie feel that other people have mentioned, although it does remind me of fall baking.
Steeped, for me, this is decidedly chai with a hint of pumpkin. I wish the pumpkin flavour came through a bit more, but I still enjoy it quite a bit. Its warming, and made me feel great yesterday on a cool day.
I am looking forward to making this into a pumpkin chai latte!

SO GOOD.
This tea tastes like pumpkin. There is nothing artificial tasting about it. It tastes like fall. Spices, that nice thick, warm, creamy scent of cinnamon and cloves and pumpkin puree.
I’m so glad this tea was brought back in the fall collection!

Yeah, this is delicious. I haven’t had it for a while as I want to save it though I think I have an extra 100g stashed away in the ol’ tea cupboard. So I let myself indulge in what is left in my tin and made this nice and strong.

I put a bit of half-and-half in (no milk on hand again as I use it so little). I remember hating it when I tried to sweeten this tea (I have never been a sweetener but thought it sounded good for this one) so didn’t go there this time. It’s getting me in gear to drive up to the cottage today after waking up late, and making me wish it was crisp fall again instead of heavily snowing winter!

This is a mix of a lot of different flavors. The black tea is not very strong tasting. It kind of has a muted flavor.
I know this sounds strange, but it tastes like David’s Tea combined a slice of pumpkin pie with hot apple cider (minus the apple-y flavor). Weird I know, but very tasty. Pumpkin is one of my favorite flavors so I couldn’t help but buy this. It’s also kind of rare for me to find anything like it unless its Fall.

Finally tasting the sample of this I got from Marcel Duchamp! Mmm chai latte for breakfast :) this tastes exactly as I think it should. I can see why it is so popular!

This is one of the teas I picked up while in Toronto as I have never seen it in-store before. It was OK as a tea but I did get a bit tired of the flavour after a while. I think that, as the other reviews have said it would be much better as a latte.

I opened this on a freezing Winter night hoping for something delightful when… Well, something went wrong. My stomach turned when I inhaled the aroma. It was overwhelming and too sickly for me to handle and I honestly contemplated whether I had gotten the right bag as this is highly praised… But I did.

After brewing it and steadying my nerves I found the tea a lot less pungent than the bag but too odd for me. It tasted like bark. Not in a bad way mind you, I definitely got a taste of autumn in it but it mostly tasted woodsy and lacking and I found myself disappointed at how things had turned. It proved that I cannot judge a tea on aroma alone but it still didn’t make my grade.

I’ll probably finish off the bag if I can but no rebuy will be scheduled for it in the future.

For me this was a pleasant surprise. I’m usually not a fan of “untraditionally” flavoured teas, and often my highest rated teas are straight teas. I received a sample of pumpkin chai in my last DT order, and decided to give it a try with my roommate. We both loved it! Looking at the ingredient list, I was concerned that it would be icky with the candies, but it really wasn’t. If I purchase this tea again, I would probably brew it a bit stronger, perhaps around the 6 minute mark.

Important to note though that I like chai teas. I like spicy teas. This was a really good twist on a traditional chai tea.

I love this tea. It was the first kind I bought from DavidsTeas when they came to St. Johns. It is really good with almond milk and agave and makes great lattes. A fabulous tea for the fall season.

This tea has grown on me somewhat. I am not huge on chai, but sometimes it hits the spot. This one is lighter on the spice with some notes of pumpkin.

I tried this one last fall, and I don’t know what it was – but I wasn’t super impressed at that time. It seemed a little bland.

I received 50g from my mom as a birthday gift this year, and to humor her I made a pot of it for her and the other guests. WOW – what a difference! This time it was delicious and spicey and pumpkiny – everybody loved it. I was much more favorably impressed this time and will definitely make it again. I had it with a touch of sugar, no milk, and it was perfect. I can only imagine how good it would be as a latte.

Made as a chai latte as others have advised (2 tsp tea in 1/4 cup boiling water, tsp brown sugar, pan of semi-skimmed milk – allow to infuse 4 mins)
Delicious.
Wish the spices were a little stronger but overall really nice.

I had three cups of this today. Great chai blend – not too spicy, a little sweet, a little pumpkin-y.

When my husband sniffed this tea at the store, he liked it so much that we bought 100g (which is something we never do the first time we try a tea). The salesperson told us this is a seasonal tea that is phased out in November, and I am SO GLAD we bought the full tin! It’s delicious. It actually tastes like real pumpkin, and the chai flavour isn’t overpowering. It also doesn’t have that unpleasant bitter note that I find so many black teas do. I can’t wait to try it with some steamed milk. Yum!