Indian Spice Tea by Harney and Sons
When I ordered my samples from Harney, I knew it was going to happen. I knew it down deep in my being that it was going to happen. The name of these posts alludes to it, I’m a tea snob. I knew when I ordered that there was going to be at least one tea that I didn’t love. Frankly, I’m amazed that from the samples there’s only one – I just didn’t expect it to be this tea.
I love ‘Chai’. Give me a good chai and I’ll drink several cups, give me a great chai and I’ll drink the pot. The heady aroma and blend of spices is a combination that I find soothing, it’s my migraine tea. It’s the tea I drank when my stomach issues were bad. Cinnamon + Ginger + Cardamon, how do you go wrong?
Brewed Indian Spice Tea
I found out the answer to that today. Indian Spice Tea from Harney is a flavoured black tea. It’s classed as a Briskness 4 Body 4 Aroma 4 so I was expecting a fairly strong flavoured tea. I should have paid more attention to their description ‘assam tea, ground cardamom, and spices combined together create this hauntingly subtle spice tea’. Hauntingly subtle – *sigh* sadly, that’s where I went wrong. It’s too subtle for my taste – I want to taste the bite of cinnamon, ginger and cloves – I want the earthiness of cardamom and it’s just not here. It’s so mild that I let the tea steep all day, then reheated it and I still lacked that flavour component I was looking for.
If you’re looking for an ultra-mild chai, you might like this but for me, it was bitter disappointment. This will never work as a substitution for the expensive Teavana Maharaja Tea I was hoping for. However, it might work for the base of a homemade version.
Verdict: D
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