Chocolate Chili Chai

I wanted this to be spicier and more interesting than it is. I don’t get much chai taste or spiciness in general. It’s a toasty, warm, chocolate tea with a tiny hint of spice. I have chocolate teas that I prefer over this one (mainly the Hot Chocolate tea and Red Velvet Cake tea from David’sTea).

This is one of my most favourite teas! It has a good kick to it and the flavour is so deep! I love the spice mixed with the chocolate; you can really taste the heat. I drink this tea black, with a splash of milk and as a latte; all ways are great – you really can’t go wrong!

This is definitely one of my favourites. It is probably the best smelling tea I have ever had. I bought a tin of it for work and when I opened it everyone near me perked up. It truly is an amazing smell. As for the taste I like it quite a bit too, it has a great chocolate taste to it. My only real knock to it is that I don’t really get any taste of the chili at all. This has been one of my go to teas lately, the one thing I will say about it though is that it isn’t one you can drink all of the time because it is a very one note taste of chocolate so you can easily get board of it so I tend to switch it up with another tea every day or so.

My Personal Notes

Personal Rating (1-5)? : 4.5/4.75
Amount? : 1 scoop, DAVIDsTEA Perfect Scoop
Water Volume? : 16 oz.
Steep Time? : 5 minutes 0 seconds
Water Temperature? : Unknown
Had Hot/Cold? (Prefer?) : Hot (Prefer-Prob Hot)
Smell? : Chocolate Spice
Taste? : Medium level of Spice and a Mild Chocolatey-ness
Allergic? : No
Added Sugar? : No
Caffeine? : Yes, Medium
Special Prep (add milk, add honey, etc.)? : No

Has an somewhat artificial chocolate smell but all I taste is the chili. I’m planning to try it with some added cocoa powder, sugar and milk.

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Sipdown (146)!

This is also a queued tasting note…

- Tastes VERY familiar, but can’t place where from and that bugs me
- Loving the dark, almost bittersweet chocolate notes
- Very “fudge” like with a heavy, thick mouthfeel
- Really subtle spices, especially the light chili tickle
- Following the intense burning from Maple Bacon Pancakes this is delightful
- Not overly sweet, or spicy so in conclusion: I liked it!
- And I suddenly understand the popularity of it a lot better

Friendly reminder that I’m not currently numerically rating DAVIDsTEA blends as I’m currently seasonally employed there and it would be an obvious conflict of interest. Any blends you see with numerical ratings were rated prior to my employment there. These reviews are a reflection of my personal thoughts regarding the teas, and not the company’s.

Yuck. This was just disgusting to me. I decided to try it in store as a latte but nope. Not good at all. I’m not a chai person and this was way too strong. Had to go back for another pump of agave just so I could miserably drink the rest. Never again.

I want to like chocolate tea but watery tasting chocolate just doesn’t do it for me. I thought maybe the spicy aspect of this would make me feel better about it, and it does, but still, not really at the top of my list. In the future, I think if I want a hot chocolatey drink, I will just have hot chocolate. Marking this a 55 because it is better than other chocolate tea I have tried. Also, I think it’s my taste preference here, not the quality tea. I do think it could be spicier though.

This is a another tea in the cupboard that’s more suited to my fiance’s tastes, but the chili got my attention. The chocolate is a decent chocolate, definitely much better than the chocolate in Davids Tea’s Read My Lips! I get a little hint of chili, but not as much as I was expecting.

Overall a decent chocolate tea, but it doesn’t particularly stand out to me. I wish the chili was more prominent, and I don’t know if I’d really consider this one a chai. If a tea is advertised as being a chai and having chili in it, I really want it to be spicy.

This is one of the teas that got me into tea. I love the spicy chili + chai combo. Due to the caffeine constant I don’t drink it much. Anyway, this is a sipdown. Someday, I will likely buy more, but for now its nice to get an older tea out of my cupboard. I think I last bought chocolate chilli chai over a year ago. It made a really nice latte-some spicy chilli, some decadent chocolate, peppercorn, malt, artificial flavouring (vanilla?).