Orange Spice (Organic) (formerly The Spice is Right)

Forgot to review this one a week ago, haha. Not my favourite flavoured green I’ve come across – a bit too spicy for my taste in this format. There are other blends that I would pick frist before coming back to this one.

I wasn’t paying too much attention when drinking this cup, as we were playing Red Dragon Inn, but I do recall a lot of cinnamon and less orange than I was hoping for.

I love spicy teas most of the time, but I’ll be honest… This one might have too much cinnamon even for me! I don’t taste much orange in this, but I do get a hint of the chili peppers. It’s a very sweet and warming blend, and I like that it has a green tea base (since black bases are pretty common with spice teas). I think this might be one of those DAVIDsTEA flavors that I’ll appreciate under the right conditions—like when I’m freezing cold and need something to warm up. As it is, this tea isn’t undrinkable for me, but it’s not the type of spice blend I usually crave. (We’ll see if my opinion changes when the weather gets colder, though!)

1.5 tsp for 300mL water @85C. steeped three minutes thirty seconds, drunk bare.

As is typical with a flavoured tea blend from DavidsTea, you’re hard-pressed to taste any actual tea. The liquor is a faint golden-green; I expect the green base tea is a fairly unexciting one.

The spice blend is, well, again, typical for DavidsTea: a bit bland, and somehow hollow. The leaf and spices look a bit like something from Stash, what with cloves and orange peel in it. I’m not sure what the “natural flavourings” are supposed to be, but the tea overall gives the faintest whiff of oranges, a little tingle from the cloves (I love cloves) and an even fainter tingle from chill peppers. Chili peppers? Where? Were they just waved over this blend?

I would not call this a spicy tea at all. It seems to be missing something — a strong heart, perhaps, either a more assertive and interesting tea base, or some more burn from what what can be decently hot spices.

Meh.

I love love love this tea! I love the orange/ spicy cinnomon heart-like quality. I hope they never discontinue this tea!

Went into David’s Tea today and thought I’d get the rundown on some chai teas. Ironically, I didn’t go with chai at all, but a spiced blend called The Spice is Right. (The mate chai, “chai guarana” was oh so tempting, but I’m trying to cut my caffeine). Already I’m in love with The Spice is Right: orange, chili pepper, clove, cinnamon! And no sugar or stevia. That said there is still something sweet about it, light and bright and not too earthy or leafy. I like my teas spicy and love things like extra ginger and clove or anise. This one is perfect. It’s a green tea, so I don’t feel so guilty about the caffeine level, but it has the boldness of a black or a typical chai. I do feel the chili pepper, though I have also let this tea steep the entire time I drank it because I couldn’t resist. The cinnamon is strong, as it tends to be in chais, but there are other notes to the spice. It brews up light in color and looks pretty as loose leaf with all the different shapes and colors in the mix. This is the best not-chai spice tea I’ve had from Davids Tea.

I’m back at home from my marketing communications class, which should be really interesting I think. I found out I got an A in my writing class and that made me happy!

Figured I would have a warm cup of something. I hope this doesn’t keep me awake since it’s green tea. But when you look in the package it is so full of cinnamon chips and other spices I figure it has 1/2 the caffeine of a normal green tea.

Looking over the reviews, this seems to be a tea that people either love or hate. It’s very strong in the cinnamon department, for sure. I know there’s supposed to be an orange element in here but I can barely taste that over the cinnamon and clove. It is very spicy and even numbs my tongue when I’m drinking it (due to the pepper, I think). I thought this was good with a bit of soymilk in it, which made it more chai like. I may try with a bit of sweetener too. Overall I liked it fairly well but it isn’t for wimps. At least it isn’t as strong as the hot cinnamon spice from Harney and Sons, which literally made me want to throw up.

I really enjoy this tea – it has the right balance of cinnamon and other spices to make a nice blend. I have only tried it hot, but I might try it iced.

THIS TEA IS PERFECTION! It has the perfect amount of spice to give it some bite, and the perfect citrus to give it the right tang. I especially love this to warm you in the cold winter months, but it is good anytime of year! This is a regular that I try to keep on hand at all times :D

This is a VERY spicy tea – I think I used more tea than suggested for the level of water so it was a little strong. I added a sweetener and it took the edge off the spice but overall an enjoyable tea.