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Oooh, yes…very nice holiday blend. A chai, I guess, but more than that. It is the Christmas holiday flavor in a cup. I always get this at the holidays!

Since I had not bought from Butiki before, I wanted to place an order before they shut down for good!

My order came with a hand-written note from Stacy (who I am familiar with from this site), which I thought was a great touch!

This tea…ooooh, my goodness! I have some lemon teas at work, but not a lot at home (I have to keep most of my stash at work; my husband is decidedly anti-tea). Anyway, this tea is just about everything I want in a tea, from the lemon, to the cookie flavor, to white tea as a base. It’s perfect. I liked it as it cooled, but this is just about a perfect tea.

I don’t know if I’ve ever given a tea a 100 rating before.

I didn’t think it was anything great. It tasted better as it cooled, but I really wasn’t getting a whole lot of anything with it.

I taste a lot more cherry than fig. It’s like the tea is almost medicinal tasting, but just shy of that line.

It tastes a lot better to me cold (and I don’t mean iced tea…just hot tea that’s gotten cold). Which is good, because I HAD to buy 4 oz of it, and I rarely buy that much of ANYTHING! I was more than miffed by that.

From hot to warm, this tea has a good flavor profile. The white tea is nice and light. The raspberry provides the much-needed contrast, and the white chocolate provides another sweet flavor for the white tea. I think anytime you put white chocolate in tea, it feels a little oily, and so does this one, but it is not to ‘oil slick in the mouth’ feeling…just a little bit of it.

A nice overall dessert-type tea for my first cuppa.

Very nice tea! Nice and fruity, with the green/black tea base. I have another one that has a green/black base, and it has a similar flavor profile. I think this would be good hot or iced (drinking it hot).

I had to look up what Yunan was, and I have to say, I’m still not sure (except the tea comes from the Yunan area of China).

I like this tea…I keep thinking I’ve put milk in it, but I haven’t. It tastes mellow with some little kick in it (that must be the pepper-like undertone I read about). It has a mouthfeel like I put milk it it, but I know that I didn’t.

I’m not buying eggnog because it is horribly bad for you (but oh, so good tasting!). This is a nice holiday-type tea, but I’m sure I wouldn’t be in the mood for it in the summer. I don’t know that it is a SUBSTITUTE for eggnog, but it does have a lot of the eggnog flavor in it, and it’ll do nicely.

Pop! Zing! Wakes me up! I do really like this tea…very nice, and a powerful chai.

Alas, this is the last of my Chocolate Chili Chai. It is just a good cup with the chocolate very prominent, and the chili providing a kick, and I love chai. I will have to get more, I know…but for now, I have to say goodbye.

Wow! I love lemon in tea, I love ginger (I eat a lot of ginger with sushi), and I love cookie!

I want to compare this a little to Buttermilk Lemon from TeaG (I’m not spelling that name), but the ginger really adds quite the zing! to the tea.

Normally I don’t like oolong as a base, but I steeped this a lot shorter, and it doesn’t taste as…well, bad…as it normally does. Like a black would be more overpowering (like in 52Teas’ Lemon Meringue Chai), and this is a lot more subtle. There’s a lot of good things working in this tea, and I think the combination of lemon and ginger and cookie is fantastic!