Hot Cinnamon Spice

So, I gotta say that I did not just stick with the Organic Assam this morning. Everyone needs a glass of tea right before they jump in their car to go to work, right? Okay, all jokes aside, I really just wanted to go ahead and finish the sample of this so I could write about it before the end of the day.

I used my usual preparation for this tea. I steeped the sachet (I guess it was about a teaspoon) in 8 ounces of 212 F water for 5 minutes. I did not attempt additional infusions.

After infusion, the liquor showed a delicate, slightly cloudy amber in the cup. The cinnamon aroma really hit me hard out of the gate, but there was other stuff there too. I thought I noted hints of toast, cream, cocoa, and orange peel. I did not pick up on the cloves. In the mouth, this tea was all about the spice. The cinnamon and clove notes really packed a wallop on the entry. Around mid-palate though, the spice notes softened and allowed flavors of cream, malt, toast, cocoa, and orange peel to peek through the murk. By the time the liquor slid down my throat, I was beginning to realize that while the spiciness remained, I was able to get a feel for the extremely light, smooth tea that capably served as a springboard for the spices and orange peel.

This tea did not provide the most refined drinking experience in the world, but it was very good. Keep in mind that assertion is coming from someone who is ambivalent toward cinnamon. This tea was clearly designed to be all about the cinnamon and it did a great job of showcasing the cinnamon aroma and flavor while displaying enough tea character to still be identifiable as tea. The additions of orange peel and clove were also not distracting in the slightest, as they complimented both the cinnamon and the tea base wonderfully. In essence, I found this to be a fun and surprisingly good little blend.

So I just reviewed this a few days ago, but I had to update because I finally tried it with milk! The aggressiveness of the cinnamon does wonderfully with milk. Adding a little bit of milk just makes it creamy and comforting, while the spicy cinnamon still shines through (although not as assertively as plain). This tea honestly works better with milk than a lot of other spiced teas I’ve had do, as the basic spice in this one is strong enough that the milk doesn’t overpower it.

I adore this. It’s comforting, warming, soothing. It’s gotten me through multiple bouts of strep throat which should give it negative associations, but no. Strong true cinnamon taste.

Its Abril 3 and yup its still snowing in Chicago. Had this lovely warming tea at Barns and Noble today while i checked some books out, This tea is cinnamon in a cup LOVE IT left with the hole tin of tea and no book lol. It really reminds me of Big Red gum back in the days

Yeah, its got some artificial flavors, and is a little sweeter to taste than I like, but its all cinnamon and its nice when I’m in the mood for it.

The cinnamon is overpowering to the point there may as well not be any tea. It also comes across as oily, perhaps due to all the spices.

This blend does not mess around. There’s nothing subtle about this, not the spice, nor the cinnamon, and especially not the sweet. I was so certain I just broke my diet by drinking some kind of sugar that I spent the next half hour Googling my heart out. They say it’s just sweet clove and some of the other ingredients, but I was skeptical. Turns out this is true: “And since there are no sugars (we tested it), it is safe for everyone to enjoy.”

I’m not sure I could drink this regularly, but when I want to blow someone’s mind about how sweet the listed ingredients could be, or when I feel the urge to drink a cinnamon imperial, I’ll crack open the tin and brace myself.

A friend gifted me a tin of this tea as a belated birthday present. It’s the firs tea from Harney & Sons that I’ve had. I brewed up a cup early this afternoon and drank it while working. It was quite nice. I don’t know if I would have picked it up myself. I love cinnamon, but sometimes it a bit overpowering in tea and leaves me with an odd dryness on my tongue. But this is quite nice. It brewed up a dark amber color, and I could catch a tiny whiff of the cinnamon when I inhaled, so I suspect it’s very strong. The flavor is definitely cinnamon, but also a bit sweet. I can see this becoming a favorite for cold afternoons this winter.

I can’t believe this has such a high rating.. Maybe there was something wrong with my satchet. The dry leaf smells like an atomic fireball candy, but there’s no spice in the taste and the tea is cloyingly sweet. I have to dump this out.

I had a tea party and somebody had opened a new tin of this and I thought to myself, “dangit… I really wish someone didn’t bring cinnamon tea let alone a bagged tea”. However, I was surprised by how sweet and tasty this tea was. It’s not a cinnamon spice flavor but rather it is a cinnamon candy flavor and I find it very enjoyable, but cinnamon is still not my kind of flavor in a tea.