Holiday Tea-son! I got a discounted holiday tea sampler pack in an after Christmas sale from T2 last January, and this was one of them. Figured I’d enjoy a cup while waiting for my pizza to show up. Tonight is going to be a Netflix and Chill sort of night.
This is a nice chocolately tea, and usually I find chocolate teas either a bit weak on the flavor or the mouthfeel seems a bit strange to me if I don’t make them as a latte. I’m actually really liking this one, because the chocolate flavor is actually very rich, but also because something about the flavor is reminding me of a chocolate liquour, so the mouthfeel of the tea is working for me even without adding milk. The tea isn’t super sweet, with some deeper dark cocoa notes, and just a touch of nice bittersweet dark chocolate to its flavor, but there is also a subtle underlying sweetness from the blackberry leaf that I’m finding very pleasant, and that berry note really works, as well; it makes me think of those speciality dark chocolates that have fruity flavor notes to them. I really do seem to taste a sort of dry, alcoholic liquor sort of flavor in the aftertaste on my tongue, and a slight astringency which may be from the black tea; I don’t really taste the black tea as far as a flavor, but I can tell it is here from the qualities of the drink.
I am sort of digging this. While I like this exactly as is, which I really can’t say for many chocolately teas, I do still want to try this latte-style and see how creamy milk will change up the game. Likely it will be more cocoa-like and less liquor-like, but I’m hoping it will still retain more of the dark chocolate elements rather than becoming milk-chocolately. I’m very curious to try it out!
Flavors: Alcohol, Berry, Cocoa, Dark Bittersweet, Dark Chocolate, Drying
That’s the conundrum with every chocolate tea I’ve ever tried. They just don’t taste like Swiss Miss, although some come closer than others.
Yeah. there are a few i like because they’re say chocolate orange..and so you don’t need intense chocolate..just the hint. But if it’s a straight up “chocolate” tea i’m like just give me the chocolate haha
When I first started drinking loose leaf tea, I was horrified to see chocolate flavored tea in the shop. I thought it must be the most awful thing ever. Once I tried it I thought it was OK but I do not consider the hot chocolate replacement. I do enjoy a good chocolate orange tea though.
I brought my TeaMaze Orange Choc to work with me in a thermos today…you’re right; it is a bit of a mood lifter!
Yaaaaay!