World Cup of Tea

Tea Information:

Leaf Type: Black

Product Description:

Our exciting blend of full-bodied black teas and fragrant, exotic spices is excellent with savory foods or as a dessert tea.

Taster’s Review:

This is a really tasty chai.

The black tea base is a robust blend of black teas. It provides a strong taste which stands up well to the strength of the spices in this tea. I don’t taste any bitterness to this cup, although there is a fair amount of astringency.

I am tasting a licorice-y kind of taste in the foreground, so I suspect that there is either licorice root or perhaps star anise in this blend. The other spices that are notable are the cardamom and cinnamon. I don’t taste much ginger in this blend. I would categorize this spice blend as a warm but not spicy-hot. The strong licorice tone to these give it more of a sweet, slightly sharp taste over the usual peppery ginger chai that I often drink.

That is not to say that one is better than the other, it is merely intended to point out the differences this chai offers. I like spicy-hot chai blends, but I also am quite fond of licorice so this tea appeals to me too.

I drank this tea with just a spoonful of turbinado sugar, but I suspect that this would also make a very yummy latte. Since it’s summer – try blending a strong concentration of the chai with some ice cubes and milk for a iced chai latte. Or better still – serve the concentrated chai warm with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream and let the ice cream cool it! YUM!

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Anne (aka the Mad Tea Artist) has celebrated her 29th birthday for many years now. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her hubby and her youngest daughter. Her oldest daughter is married and has bestowed Anne with the proud title of "Gramma" and her grandson is about the cutest boy you ever did see. Anne started her journey with tea as a casual drinker and became more serious about her tea drinking when she realized that she couldn't drink coffee. Shortly thereafter, she started becoming obsessed with the beverage and she started creating small-batch, artisan blends of tea that she sold online as LiberTEAS. After a few years, she realized she wasn't cut out to be the sole proprietor of a business so she closed LiberTEAS and started reviewing teas online. She met Jennifer through another blog that they both reviewed for and they decided to start their own review blog. This review blog! Throughout her journey as a tea reviewer, she discovered 52Teas and became enamored with the idea of creating a new tea every week. When the founder of 52Teas decided he wanted to move on, he offered the business to Anne but knowing that she wasn't cut out to be a sole proprietor, she instead offered the company to her oldest daughter who employs her as the Mad Tea Artist for 52Teas!

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