Maple Creme Oolong

I do so enjoy a maple.
I noticed more maple in the scent of the dry leaf, but the brewed tea is more of a sweet cinnamon. Thankfully I found the flavor more maple forward overall, with a hint of that cinnamon/cardamom combo I’ve come to love. As it cools the maple starts to fade from the initial sip but lingers afterward. I’ve had other maples I like more, but this isn’t a bad one either.

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This one is really nice! There are strong notes of the spices but not so much as to completely overwhelm the flavors. I would have preferred a slightly stronger note of maple creme, but overall I think everything works quite well here.

Edit: I love that someone previously listed “autumn leaf pile” as a flavor for this, haha! I like to think this tastes better than leaves, but I adore the comparison.

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Another sample.

The cinnamon ruins this one for me. It’s called “maple creme” and yet the cinnamon is the strongest flavor here. It turns it into more of a cinnamon roll dessert tea than a maple one. And I don’t dislike cinnamon, but I love maple and I wanted to taste more of it. Plus the oolong base is very… twiggy-tasting.

Drinking this while I write up a few tasting notes. When I opened up the pouch, the scent of fall just wafted up: apples, cinnamon, and maple all in happy harmony. Yes, it’s a hot summer day right now, but still this seemed appealing somehow. It’s one of the few Adagio teas I’ve really been wanting to try. Disappointingly, the flavor balance feels quite off. The maple is here and pleasant enough, and there’s a nice apple note. Not sure about any creaminess, which is definitely a miss when it’s in the name of the blend. But the real problem is that the cinnamon is too strong, to the point of being biting. And I LOVE cinnamon – I use an appalling amount of it on yogurt, ice cream, etc. But in a blend like this, the cinnamon should really be a supporting player rather than the prima donna. This is still drinkable, but primarily because I like cinnamon so much; I think someone else might find it difficult. I had such high hopes for this blend – an oolong in my flavor profile sweet spot – but it just didn’t deliver.

Comparable to the one from David’s Tea, this one is a bit lighter in taste. Got as a free sample, I think WRP FS from Adaigo later. Oatmilk

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One of the last few tiny samples from Adagio
This one has a not so pleasant tasting oolong base much like the Almond Oolong that I tried from Adagio. This one mostly tastes like dirt/unpleasant with some cinnamon. The base is definitely stronger than the cinnamon. The cinnamon isn’t spicy which is nice because I don’t love the spicy cinnamon flavor when it’s the main note in a tea. I do get the maple syrup a tiny bit but you have to really look for it to find it. Overall it doesn’t really fit the description and the base tea isn’t good so it’s a no for me.

This was a free sample that came with my Adagio order.

Anyway, I am loving the maple flavor on this. It tastes like a good strong maple syrup. Mind you, I added a single Splenda to it, but I did so because I felt it might help bring out the maple flavor. It did. It’s a maple syrup flavor with a hint of creaminess. There’s also a touch of cinnamon, and that is what lingers on after the sip. I don’t mind the cinnamon, but it is a bit weird. I don’t usually associate cinnamon with maple.

It’s pretty good. Not great, but good. I’d say B -

This one was different each time I made it. You have to use 1.5 tsp for a 6 oz cup of tea. There was a lot of cinnamon in it which hid the maple taste. Although the tea is called maple oolong. It took time for the maple taste to peek out. I wish the other spices like cardamom came out with the maple flavor to make it have a punch. It took a lot of tries to get the perfect cup with this one. This is another one of those tea that I would drink if I had it but not something that I would go out and buy myself.

Time to “power review” some Adagio blends…

This starts off nice enough with a sweet and slightly creamy maple in the top note; but quickly transitions to a very sour oolong taste (the kind that comes with not so great roasted oolong) that is really sharps/digs into the sides of your mouth and leaves an unpleasant finish. Also, not sure what cinnamon has to do with a “maple creme” profile but it felt kind of weird mixed in…

So apparently you only have six months after your order is received to leave Adagio reviews, and I need my points, so I’ll be sampling all my remaining Adagio in the next three days. I don’t really like this one. The combination of spices make it taste smoky and strange. It has the sweetness of maple, but the flavor is wrong. Maybe someone who likes a light chai would enjoy this. It’s not undrinkable, but I won’t be having a second cup. I love maple teas, so I’m sad to have to give this a low rating!