Holiday Dream

I’m a sucker for any kind of “holiday,” “Christmas,” or spice teas, so I ordered this along with the Tea Table’s Cinnamon Orange Spice, which has practically the same ingredients. Oops. This one smelled much better, more citrusy, so I tried it first.

This is really smooth & fragrant. The dominant flavors are the cloves and citrus, which really highlight the black tea. Most of the spices kind of linger in the background without really popping. I don’t really taste the vanilla pieces, either, but adding a vanilla black tea to this would be faaabulous.
I was running late this morning, so it didn’t steep as long as I would have liked before I poured it into my travel mug, which explains why I would probably like this so much more if it were a bit stronger.

This is another tea that hasn’t quite reached a certainty. At first I didn’t like it, but, as it cooled and I continued sipping it was a bit more acceptable. I think I need to try it more often to see if it grows on me.

It’s a very spicy smelling and slightly spicy tasting tea. The cinnamon and cloves is very noticeable. At current, it doesn’t seem like there’s anything special with this, it does have a slight creamy aftertaste and almost a little bit like earl grey too.

This is a sweet and very tasty black tea. With no sugar, there’s a faint bite of black tea bitter to balance the sweetness; with one lump, it’s more of a decadent experience. This is a very smooth tea, but it’s a little more complicated in its flavors than I usually choose first thing in the morning. It makes a great mid-morning treat.

The Tea Table calls this a “holiday” tea, but hastens to assure that it’s “delicious any time of year”, which I find amusing. This tastes very much like a mid-winter tea to me. This is also from my tea-of-the-month subscription and I don’t think it’ll last me through the month, let alone through the winter, at the rate I keep drinking it!