Title: Organic Christmas Tea
Ingredients: Organic black tea, cinnamon chips, ginger, orange peel, rose petals, almonds, apples, and peach pieces.
Company: Tea District
Tea Name: Organic Christmas
Tea Type: Black
Steeping Vessel/Amt. Leaf: Cup/ loose leaf
Liquor Color: Reddish amber
Leaf Characteristics: Tea leaves are a medley of very fine straw like leaves with chunks of cinnamon chips, orange peel, almonds, ginger and bits of peaches.
1st Steeping:
Water temperature: 200 Fahrenheit
Time: 5 minutes
I missed having this tea on Christmas day, although I had put it aside but somehow never got to it. Instead I am having it now. Better later than not at all.
I like the tea’s mixture and heady sweetness coming from the tea packet upon opening it. I scoop it all out and put it in my tea mug and pour over the boiled water. I leave it to steep for a good five minutes.
The teas aroma is fruity and spicy. I can smell the cinnamon and ginger right away, with hints of orange peel and peaches. When I sip the tea it is sweetly piquant from the ginger chunks. Once I get past the obvious flavors of cinnamon and ginger topping with another layer of fruits like the orange peels and peach, I can discern the almond flavoring as well since the tea has that grainy nutty texture from the almond chunks.
In all this is a very rich tea; filled with a lovely medley of different spice and fruit blending nicely to make this a most memorable cup of tea.
2nd Steeping:
Water temperature: 200 Fahrenheit
Time: 5 minutes
I am able to have another good steep of this tea and the results are similar to first cup.
Overall tasting notes observed: This is a fun tea and drinking it is more like having a cup of herbal tea than black tea with the fruits and spice from the ginger and cinnamon bark.
Tea color: reddish amber
Characteristics: flowery aroma with a sweet, ‘piquant’ liquor.
Tea District describes this tea as-
A beautiful blend of black Chinese tea, cinnamon chips, orange peels, rose petals, blanched almonds, apple, peach and ginger combined together to create a scrumptious Christmas blend. Many of our fans drink this one year round, however it is most popular during the winter and holiday season.
Overall even though Christmas is now over I feel this tea is still very appropriate for the time of year. A great big hug in a mug and I will certainly be happy to drink more of this!
Comment by January 23, 2013 @ 5:34 am
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Comment by February 6, 2013 @ 11:10 pm
Ainee Beland said:
I have enjoyed many of the Tea District Teas; so much so that I did give in to purchasing some teas from them that I have yet to open and taste for a review submittal. I trust in time I will reach for it and review it accordingly.
Thank you for letting me be a reviewer; sort of a dream come true for me.
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