White Chocolate Chai

Not my favorite chai. It’s too bitter?

I really didn’t like this and the other 2 blends in this chai collection. I felt like they were far too sweet, leaving nothing but the sweet taste and oily mouth feel. This one was perhaps a little creamier than the other two, but the sugar makes the other flavours barely detectable.

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I really enjoyed this one. The spices are gentle, definitely heavier on the ginger and cardamom. The white chocolate gives it a creaminess that goes well with the chai concept and makes this very warming and comforting. The big negative here is the stevia for me. I dislike stevia in general (flavorwise), and there is too much in this tea, making it overly sweet. I find I prefer making this tea in a larger quantity, because after the first couple of sips I don’t notice the sweetness so much. But I do still really like this one.

This tea does not remind me of a good chai tea. I taste mostly cocoa and black tea. It’s not a horrible cup of tea-I just don’t think it’s worthy of the name White Chocolate Chai. I wonder if I add chocolate to saigon chai (which I like WAY better than this one) if I could pull off a better cuppa tea. Hmmm…I have chocolate in the pantry-I might just have to try this tonight! I am saying no as a recommendation of this tea because to me, it offers false promises and I was so excited to try this one just to be disappointed.

*Update: Tried Saigon chai with milk chocolate chips and must say it is delicious. The chocolate flavor is faint a little but still detectable. I wasn’t sure how much to add but next time I will add a few more and see. Yum.

I wasn’t too excited to try this one, but it smelled sweet enough and not too spicy, so I went ahead and got 50g to try in different ways. First I tried it as a latte. I wasn’t sure if I’d like it since other people have said it reminds them of CFT – which I don’t like, but to me it didn’t taste like that. It’s a nice balance of sweet and spices. Not one I would stock up on though. Next I’ll have it just hot and see how that is.

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A whole chai collection from DT had me both intrigued and wary. Chais are a sort of delicate thing for me. I love ginger and cardamom and small (very small) amounts of cinnamon. I really don’t like heavy amounts of cinnamon. So whether or not I like a chai is really highly variable.

So this specific chai? Eh, it was okay. A good balance of spices, not one note more prominent than another. It was sweet from the white chocolate, but there wasn’t much flavour of white chocolate. All in all, it was a nice cuppa but nothing memorable.

Welp; there’s a new collection out today! This time it’s Chai teas, which I guess means that as far as the DT world is concerned Fall is officially here! Time for big cozy sweaters, pumpkin everything, lattes, and tea on the front porch.

Personally, I wasn’t thrilled at the idea of a Chai themed collection because I don’t generally like Chai – but there’s certainly a demand for this kind of collection, and I will say that when I saw that the new Chai teas were more dessert themed I was a little more intrigued than I would have been otherwise.

So, I think this is probably the sweetest tasting of all three Chais from this collection; it’s got lots of white chocolate in it, as well as some cacao as well. I do like white chocolate a lot so that should mean this is great, right? Well…

The biggest issue for me personally is that there’s SO MUCH ginger in this tea. Like, I know I don’t like Chai in general most of the time so there was an expectation I’d already find this one pretty spice heavy but I mean they SPECIFICALLY were fairly heavy handed with the ginger in this one. It’s practically all I can smell in the dry leaf, and it’s the SECOND listed ingredient. For someone, that’s a dream come true but for me? Definitely not a selling point.

Steeped up, I didn’t hate it but it didn’t do anything for me either. It is fairly ginger heavy, but not as much as I’d expect just based on the smell. It’s also sweet, but I’d say in a more generic way than a specifically ‘white chocolate’ way. Honestly, for me it kind of reminds me of just a classic chai, but presweetened? I don’t know – there’s nothing terrible about that, but it’s not for me. The only thing I actually truly disliked was that this one falls culprit to oily mouthfeel because of the melted down chocolate. Not a surprise, but not super pleasant either.

I don’t know. This one could have been worse for me. By my own personal chai standards, it was drinkable. I’m curious what someone who really loves Chai would think about it, ‘cause I’m certainly NOT that person…

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 regarding the teas, and not the company’s.