Market Spice Tea

I grew up with this tea. My mom would use it for sun tea in the summer and of course as a kid I loved the sweetness of the cinnamon oil. I still like it hot occasionally, but iced is best—no sweetener needed.

More cinnamon than my taste, but so naturally sweet and refreshing. A perfect autumn tea.

Delicious! Naturally sweet and spicy. Om nom.

My favorite!

This tea is super. It’s sharp and flavorful and doesn’t need anything added to it in order to achieve ambrosial levels of tea drinking enjoyment (except maybe some water – hot or iced! – it’s just that versatile). If you’re ever down at Pike Place Market, you can grab a free sample at the Market Spice tea shop. Woo!

One of the best flavored teas I have ever had. Naturally sweet with no sugar added. Orange, cinnamon, clove…great iced or hot.

This tea was a gift from a colleague, and I have been pleasantly surprised by how much I like it, given how much oil covered the tea bags and how nearly overpowering the scent of spices are when the packet is opened. I find the orange oils brighten the cinnamon, without overpowering it or bringing bitterness into the mix. The tea is quite sweet, bordering on over-sweet. Makes a nice evening cup.

I actually liked this tea, but, it’s bad. Very bad. A very bad, naughty, tea. It has destroyed my ingenuitea. I probably should have known, or been wiser, or something. The only warning on the package says that it should be stored in a glass container. I probably shoul d have inferred something was up from this, but I did not. I steeped it for 5 minutes in a 16 oz Ingenuitea, it’s all cloudy and etched from the oils in the tea and I’ve had a heck of a time getting the cinnamon smell out of the pot. I’m not even really sure it’s safe to drink tea made out of my pot anymore with the damage this tea did.

That being said, a tasting note should be a note on the tea, not how destructive it. I find it to be pretty delicious, just disappointed that it’s possibly cost me a teapot.

I LOVE this signature, orange-cinnamon tea from Market Spice. The actual store in Pike Place Market in Seattle is a complete gem. The tea is aromatic and sweet- without adding sugar. The sweetness is strange in that after gulping it down, there is no sweet aftertaste, but more of a slight oily sensation. I can see how it might be off-putting initially… but this tea is addicting. Wish I had stocked up on more while I was in Seattle…but bc it is flavored with orange essential oils, its shelf life is shorter than other teas

Like mentioned in other ratings, this tea doesnt forgive steeping too long or using too much. If you do that it will taste like orange tinged cinnamon syrup. Even when I used less for a shorter amount of time I didnt get much tea flavor.

I really dont want to give up on it though because its from a local shop, and it does smell really good loose. Maybe one of these days when I am sick the sweet spicy will work for me.

I love the idea of this tea, but it’s just too sweet for me. There’s LOTS of cinnamon in this tea, and cinnamon can take on a sort of sweet tinge, which it has in this blend. I desperately wanted to like it because it sounds so good, but it didn’t work for me.

This tea needs to be watched very carefully. Brewed just long enough and it’s a rich, flavourful drink. Over brewed even a little bit and it’s pretty much undrinkable.