Caramelized White Chocolate Cinnamon & Apple

Holy flavouring, Batman!

Opening up this sachet I found myself just blasted with an intensely strong alcoholic aroma from the fresh flavourings used in this tea that clearly hadn’t had a moment to air out. I had a coworker who used to make Cinnamon Apple Moonshine, and that’s what this smelled like to me. Just dangerously boozy and bordering on paint thinner…

Thankfully, that alcohol carrier basically ‘burns off’ during the steeping process and the taste gets a lot more reasonable with a much more manageable aroma. In general, I think I liked this cinnamon apple profile more than the “Spiked Apple Cider” from box one which was kind of just a simple and sort of weak apple rooibos. It produces a decently strong tasting cup, with a more sweet and punchy apple note that actually feels more fitting for a Spiked Cider than the actual Cider blend Almost Tea carried…

I will say that, aside from general sweetness, I do think the “Caramelized White Chocolate” component of this blend is missing. It feels like maybe they just bit off one too many elements for the profile than they could chew.

This is smelling very perfumy when I open the pouch. Once it’s steeped my first few sips were very baby powdery. That taste would fade at the back of the sip and spiced apple would creep in the finish. The powder went away a few sips in, but there is something very perfume like that flashes at the start of the sip. I can pick up on the caramelized part of the apple, but the white chocolate flavors are eluding me at the moment. As it cools the perfume comes in a little stronger and the powder came back when I started sipping again. It’s very light and airy and I’m not getting white chocolate in there at all, but I think it’s likely a hard flavor to nail down in a tea. This is a really weird cup and not in a fun way, but an “I don’t know what to think about this” sort of way.