Cinnamon Rooibos Chai (Organic)

Love this tea. I don’t really think of Roobios and chai, but decided to give it a try. It is a great relaxing evening tea.

Been cleaning house all evening after work to try to spare myself of it over the weekend (though I still have bit left to do in the morning). Very ready to wind down with some tea. This is another freebie sampler I had from DAVIDsTEA that I grabbed yesterday with the others (the backup if the coconut was foul), so into the teapot it goes! And since I’ve been multitasking getting another batch of iced tea made up, the teabag was just left in the pot steeping for an ample amount of time. Ah well, I like my herbals “bag left in” strong.

Has a strong Red Hots cinnamon candy aroma. And that’s pretty much what I’m getting from the flavor, too. I’m getting a bit of an apple sweetness left on my tongue in the aftertaste, and wish the two flavors were meshing more together during the sip, but it is very dominated by the artificial cinnamon flavor. The rooibos base itself is fairly non-descript for me here, again because the cinnamon is such a strong note. It’s fine, but Tea Chai Te has a rooibos version of their Market Spice tea which is that same sort of sweet cinnamon candy flavor profile, but I find theirs a bit more rounded/interesting. I think this one would interest me a bit more if the apple flavor were popping more and I was getting cinnamon apples rather than cinnamon candies, since I already have a cinnamon candies rooibos I quite enjoy.

A perfectly satisfying cup, and one I’m glad I got the chance to try, but ultimately a flavor I have in my collection already and like better from another tea.

Sipdown no. 6 of March 2019 (no. 41 of 2019 total, no. 529 grand total). A sample, with just enough for both a first note and a sipdown. I got this as a sample when I bought some tiny glass glasses from David’s.

It bothers me that there are so many different entries for the same drink. I have, on occasion, made a mistake and entered a tea twice even after checking to see if an entry is in the database, but usually I’m able to find an existing entry by taking a few minutes to do a few different searches. I chose this of the 3 or so entries because it had the most notes by far.

Note to Jason et al — if you want to give me merge powers, I’m happy to fix these as I come upon them.

Anyway. I was only about halfway to my March sipdown goal and it is almost the middle of the month, so I thought I better get on the stick and write a rare middle of the week note.

The rooibos smells strongly of cinnamon in the packet. Very strongly. At first I thought it was stick cinnamon I was smelling, but this is sweeter than that. It’s like Red Hots.

The liquor is a burnt orange color (hook ‘em horns)! After steeping it smells pretty much the same as it did dry. The aroma doesn’t even really smooth out like it often does after steeping.

There’s just a hint of clove in the sip, which is great because too much clove is… ugh. The rooibos doesn’t taste as sweet as its aroma suggests, but it is still very cinnamony. I imagine the apple is there to sweeten things up a bit. It isn’t really an independent flavor.

The rooibos is nicely understated. A slight reediness to the flavor, but no hamster cage chips.

It’s very nice after a long day.

I like it, but be warned that it is very cinnamon forward. It almost reminds me of those red cinnamon candies, except slightly less aggressive (the candies are always too cinnamon-y for me, but like I said, I like the tea). I also like that it tastes like a caffeinated black-tea chai, but isn’t— great for a 3pm pick-me-up without interfering with the sleep cycle!

From #24DaysofTea2018, Day 2

I’ve had this tea several times before but haven’t reviewed it. This was a free sample from my DT order.

I prepared this hot with some unsweetened vanilla almond milk.
This tea is quite similar to TJ’s Winter Wake Up tea except even sweeter and it’s caffeine free.
This tea is SO Sweet and I like really sweet teas but it’s like drinking Cinnamon syrup straight. The chai aspect of this tea isn’t there at all. The apple in the tea isn’t there at all either. I think the cinnamon flavoring they used is what ruins it.I love cinnamon and put tons of the spice itself on things, but syrupy cinnamon flavors aren’t ones I reach for and can only tolerate occasionally.
This tea would probably be amazing as a milkshake with some fresh granny smith apples and some vanilla bean ice cream or frozen yogurt. Since it’s already so sweet you wouldn’t have to add much ice cream. It definitely tastes like a simple syrup just lacking the thickness of the syrup.

Aw man. What a bummer. This is my third (and final) sachet of my work day and I had read how delightfully cinnamon-y this is. I mean, kind of? Maybe for some people? When I want a cinnamon tea, I want my mouth blown off by cinnamon (like Harney & Sons Hot Cinnamon Spice – yaaaaas). This is meh cinnamon. And very apple-centric. Let’s not even talk about the fact that they call this a chai when it’s SO NOT. All in all a disappointment.

This is a really great blend of cinnamon and apple, along with the usual chai flavours. I really like it!

Day 13 of David’s Tea’s 24 Days of Tea 2017
(I’ll be going back to day 12 later)

Ooh! What a spicy boy. Good shit.

This tea didn’t have much punch for me. I prefer the masala style chai with complex layered flavors and the rich aroma. I think having the base of rooibos it needs something more to make it stand out.

Brewed with 12oz water and added some hot milk and a bit of honey.
Davids Tea 24 Days of Tea Advent calendar Day 11

For me this lacks certain things I think a chai should have. I get more of a chai feeling out of the pumpkin chai then I do this one. The apple is not working for me in this. I’m also missing the cloves and cardamom. In fact I don’t it’s really a chai unless it has those two. If they just called this a cinnamon rooibos it would be more accurate.