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“TTB! The chocolate here tastes quite alcoholic despite all the actual chocolate that was in there. Combined with the flavor of the orange, it was just too tangy for my preferences. It was okay with...” Read full tasting note
“2025 TTB #14 Stevia, ugh! I really need to learn to check the ingredients on David’s Tea blends before trying them, because so many of them are ruined for me by that nasty stevia aftertaste. This...” Read full tasting note
“Sipdown I found this in the sipdown bin and decided to top it off. I’m not really sure if this was the cup for me. I like the idea of a chocolate orange tea, but this was one of those cups that...” Read full tasting note
“1/27/22 Sipdown from advent calendar… one that i’m on the fence about. On the one hand I like it when I put in gobs of sugar. On the other hand, I really don’t like chocolate flavoring. This one...” Read full tasting note
How it tastes
Delectable dark chocolate bursting with zesty orange
Oops, we might have created a classic. By combining delectable dark chocolate ganache with a heavy-handed addition of fresh orange juice and zest, this black tea tastes even better than the chocolate orange dad always gifts you. It’s a smashing combo.
What makes it great
• Sweet & zesty flavours envelop every taste bud.
• Black tea gives you a caffeine boost without the chocolate sugar crash.
• Reminiscent of chocolate orange treats.
Ingredients
Black tea, Cocoa bean, Orange peel, Chocolate chip (sugar, cocoa, soy lecithin), Natural (chocolate, cacao, orange, sweet) flavouring with stevia, Cocoa husk.
DavidsTea is a Canadian specialty tea and tea accessory retailer based in Montreal, Quebec. It is the largest Canadian-based specialty tea boutique in the country, with its first store having opened in 2008.
This is the third (and final) new tea from the Autumn subscription box – new, in this case, just meaning teas that released for the first time through the subscription box…
I waited a while to do this tasting note because I wanted to try the tea again – I don’t drink chocolate teas often and it’d been many months since I last tried it. I think potentially even all the way back to when we were wrapping the development for it!? It’s not the first time DT has done a chocolate orange tea. The one I think most people will be familiar with is the Chocolate Orange Pu’erh and then also Mocha Orange Biscotti; although there was more going on that just chocolate/orange with that blend.
I’m definitely in the camp of people who liked Chocolate Orange Pu’erh a lot – I just thought the balance of two flavours there was so good and it was the first ever blended pu’erh that I ever tried (I think maybe the first pu’erh in general!?) so there’s a bit of a special association there. However, I remember selling that tea in stores and a lot of people didn’t like the pu’erh base – it was one of the more earthy and forward tasting pu’erhs that we carried at that time and pu’erh is one of those flavours that definitely doesn’t agree with everyone and I think can take a little adjusting to.
This blend seems, to me, a lot more immediately approachable for the average person. It’s a clear and distinct chocolate and orange flavour, and pretty sweet without sacrificing the body and thickness of the black tea or getting too much of that weird filmy/oily quality that sometimes happens with chocolate blends. I think the orange is stronger in this blend than Chocolate Orange Pu’erh – certainly brighter, at the very least. Part of that is the stevia in the blend – it kind of boosts/lifts those orange notes more to the top of the sip. I don’t personally find stevia off putting but I know a lot of people do, however I think it’s really mild in this blend all things considered & blends quite seamlessly into the orange flavour in my opinion.
Overall I enjoy this blend – I’d rank it higher than Mocha Orange Biscotti but a little lower than Chocolate Orange Pu’erh, in terms of my own preferences. I hope other people enjoy it too!
Friendly reminder that I do not numerically rate DAVIDsTEA blends as I’m currently 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 and feelings regarding the teas, and not the company’s.
(DavidsTea 158)
Got my DT subscription box today! Hopefully this isn’t a spoiler for anyone… sorry! I initially assumed this was the revamped Oh Christmas Treat, but then realized it’s on a black, not a pu’erh base, which is awesome. And, I quite enjoyed it. It’s similar in flavour to Butiki’s chocolate orange, although the base tea not being Premium Taiwanese Assam definitely ranks it below that delicious concoction. But – it was still delicious. It does seem to contain stevia (boo) but I wasn’t really put off by it. Does likely mean I won’t repurchase, but realistically, 25g is plenty anyhow.
This sounds delicious. Orange/chocolate is my happy combo.