DavidsTea emailed me to let me know the fall collection had officially dropped, so I went in to see the shiny new teas. I ordered a cup of this to go, since I’d been particularly looking forward to it – I absolutely love apple cider.
This tea definitely lives up to the “sweet” part of its name – the apples give it a nice homey sugary taste. I also picked up on some floral notes in my cup. Unfortunately, evaluating it as a cider tea, I was left kind of disappointed. Everything about fall, to me, begs for spice, spice and more spice, and cider especially benefits from it; but there’s a complete absence of any of the spice or kick that I love in my ciders in this tea. It’s delicious, but it’s not what I was picturing when I heard there would be a cider tea, and I think the blend suffers as a result of that expectation in comparison to what it actually is.
Tl;dr – it’s good, it’s just not cider-y enough. I liked it, but that disappointment means I probably won’t be picking up more than a cup’s worth.
