This tea tastes like Christmas – strong, spicy, sparkly, sweet, fun. I don’t know how something can taste ‘sparkly,’ but this does. It just has a certain brightness to it that keeps it from being simply a heavily spiced black tea. I adore the clove in this (mmm cloves). Like eating gingerbread cookies decorated with sugar crystals underneath the Christmas tree, staring up at hundreds of twinkling lights. I crave this blend in the cold weather.