★★★★★
got the blend just right for me just a hint of pepper in the finish, even good cold
'Masala' means 'blend of spices' and 'chai' is simply 'tea.' Inviting fragrance, invigorating flavor, warm finish.
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got the blend just right for me just a hint of pepper in the finish, even good cold
this is a nice smooth chai excellent hot or cold with almond milk or regular milk
I love this chai! Its spicy and smooth without being overwhelming. It also isn't too strong on the cinnamon flavor but has a nice warm medley of other flavors and spices.
love the taste...who needs coffee if you have masala chai?
I use a French Press and let it steep for a few minutes, but not to long. I go mostly by appearance.
Spicy and warm, but the individual flavors still come through; rather than being a muddled warm flavor as a lot of tea bags are. Just have to let it steep a lot longer than most other teas. I found it left a faint after taste in my plastic ingenuitea that did wash out with a bit of vinegar. Fortunately I have other flavor-neutral tea pots I can use, just a note of caution.
This is a nice chai, smooth with just the right amount of spice. I generally use about 3 teaspoons per cup because I like it a little stronger.
This is delicious tea. It has just the right amount of spice. I add a bit of half and half and some sugar and it's perfect. Full confession: I don't normally like regular tea and only drink herbal. Looks like this tea has converted me!
This chai wasn't nearly as spicy as I had hoped. It was rather bland, actually: not sweet, not spicy, just there. It did have the spices of chai, but I prefer my chai spicy and this just didn't deliver.
The is tea is simply delicious. I will be ordering this one again, and again.
Really enjoying this tea. Just the right amount of spices. Very aromatic.
I'm really torn between this chai and the vanilla rooibos chai but if I absolutely had to choose I think I liked this one just a little bit more. I like this with a little honey and almond milk, it's smooth and fragrant.
Great taste! Great name! :D I'll definitely be ordering this one again.
This is probably my favorite type of tea. I love the full-bodied spiciness of it, and like to let it steep for the full amount of time (possibly a minute or two more). I find that the longer I steep it for, the more I can taste the ginger undertones. I've only added honey to it so far to sweeten it, but I'm sure it would taste absolutely wonderful with cream.
I love this tea. I purchased it and had to turn around and buy more. The flavor is strong enough to really enjoy.I also bought the decaf tea. It is not quite as good, but outstanding for decaf.
I have loved chai tea for a while. Your masala chai is delicious.
If you like Nutmeg, clove and cinnamon you will love this tea.
I also put a splash of milk and a little bit of Honey.
Honestly, I am not a huge fan of the tea. But it is very flavorful. I think it would taste better with sweeter flavoring, but that is just my taste buds. Most people would love this tea!
This tea was spicy and warm, great for an afternoon refresher on cold days. Would definitely order it again!
From reading all of the reviews it looks like I should try this with milk and sugar. My first intro to Chai was Teavana. I kind of like the extra spice of Teavana's.
T Adagio chai, as its name implies, is a slow dance between exotic spices and black tea. It can be brewed in a pot; or if time is a factor, use the microwave.
1. Boil 12 oz of filtered water in a pyrex measuring cup on high for 2-3 min. Remove.
2. Add 2 tsp of tea, cover and let it brew for 3-4 min. Watch the color. The darker the stronger.
3. * Add 2 tbsp of whole milk, or half and half, cream or canned evaporated milk. I like it thick. (This is personal reference.)
4. Sweeten with 1-2 tbsp of sweetened condensed milk.
5. Inhale. Drink slowly. Yum.
**Chai tea has a subtle flavor. Water must be filtered. Chlorine will ruin it. So will artificial sugars which will make it bitter and mask the spices.
I ordered this and the Oriental spice and I'm glad I did, the oriental spice is better and stronger (they taste the same to me).
Was a bit too strong for me while hot and brewed at recommended amount. Next time will probably brew weaker. Definitely enjoyed it more as the tea cooled.
Love this tea! This is definitely one of my 'go to' teas. The flavors are very present. An enjoyable tea.
This is a lovely spiced Chai, makes a great foe latte! I say foe because adding just a little cream is not Chai latte! Little joke I do love the aroma and spice though, the clove is a little overpowering and at times I would like more pepper. Well I guess that means I need to explore the Chai teas!
My wife's favorite Masala Chai that I have found so far. She gave up coffee and loves this in the morning with a little extra Indian assam black tea thrown in.
When I think of chai tea this is the one I think of. It's a classic tea, and quick to make.
I am a big fan of Chia teas and this one does not disappoint.
I'm really not a huge fan of this tea. It's not that it's bad, but I don't believe it's my cup of tea.
I have really grown to love Chai Tea, and short of adding some more eccentric things like Black Peppercorns, this blend has a lot of great spice flavor and depth.
Such a great chai. I drink this in the afternoon as a pick me up.
This chai has a lot of spice to it. I bought it for my office building as we have an espresso machine and I wanted to experiment with making my own chai lattes. I use the suggested serving but half of the water to make it stronger and then add my steamed milk. It's perfect.
This is a very good tea if you want to make a cup of Chai and can't afford to go to Starbucks for a cup. I use sugar and milk in it and drink it hot or cold. Both are good. Where I normally drink less spicy teas, I'm really enjoying this blend.
I think there has been a change recently to this item, because the last batch I had was fantastic.
I think this may be the only black tea that I really like. It's super spicy and wonderful. :)
I wasn't a big fan of this tea to be honest, but I'm really picky about spiced teas, so perhaps that's why. It also smelled strongly of henna, which I believe put me off the most.
Smells great and tastes great with milk and sugar. I suggest playing around with the amount of tea used per cup for best masala chai.
If you like clove, and a lot of it, this is for you! I enjoy clove, but this was too much for me.
I tried this before in a sampler set, so I decided to get a bunch more! It's such a good chai... A little spicy and full of flavor! I had mine with milk and sugar, and it's heavenly! Highly recommend this tea if you like chai teas.
A good blend of spices in this tea. I prefer more spice to tea ratio, but this is pretty good - especially is a touch of cream is added.
I think I dorked up the tea by adding too much milk. I need to try it again without the milk, maybe with some vanilla sugar.
The best classic chai. I find this blend to be the most balanced chai, with just the right intensity of cloves to really satisfy.
A great change up chai with enough flavor to satisfy with or without any sweetener.
One of the best chai's I have had. Plan on ordering more when I run out
Nice spicy chai tea. Not something I would drink often but was nice last week while nursing a cold. Opens up your sinuses!
Now this is a masala chai! Puts all the commercial/'grocery store brand' chais I've tried utterly to shame, not to mention the pre-made 'chai latte' type drinks you can get at most places. This brings me back to the first time I ever had masala chai, at a small place in Santa Cruz, California.
I felt like the chocolate chai I used in one of my signature blends was a little heavy on the cardamom, so I was expecting to encounter the same thing here, but now I think it must just have been that one tin, because in the masala chai sample bag, the spices are very well balanced. The cardamom is definitely present but does not drown out the other spices, and the ginger is a warm but not biting presence. In inferior chais, I have found that the cardamom is usually missing entirely or of extremely low quality and having hardly any flavor, and the ginger is generally either low quality and weak flavored, or else it's high quality but overused, causing it to cleanse the palate in an undesireable way when the chai is sipped - essentially preventing you from really tasting much of the tea! This blend avoids both issues deftly, providing a nice amount of both spices.
I do wonder if the cinnamon used is true (Ceylon) cinnamon or cassia. It doesn't taste like the typical low-quality cassia from the grocery store, but it's hard to detect the classic Ceylon tang through the stronger presences of clove, cardamom, and ginger. If it is cassia, that's a little disappointing, but it does seem to be better-than-usual cassia at least. If it's Ceylon, I think it should be given a slightly higher proportion in the mix. It's not quite standing up to the other spices. The cloves are whole, which is interesting, and gives a slightly different flavor than ground clove would have. A wise decision, I think, as it prevents the clove from being overwhelming.
Unlike some chais, there doesn't seem to be any anise or anise-like flavor to this. Thank goodness! I'm not sure why I sometimes encounter an anise-like flavor in masala chai, but I'm personally not a fan. So I'm glad it isn't present here. I'm also pleased by the way the spice content is balanced, so that there's a very slight peppery flavor, a gentle prickle on the tongue, and a sense of warmth even in room temperature tea, but it isn't overly spicy so that you feel like you need a sip of milk to cool your mouth and throat after you sip this.
I usually try a new tea plain, with no milk or sweetener, but I'm a sucker for chai latte, so I drank this with milk and a bit of raw honey. It formed a lovely dark liquor, golden brown with a slight reddish tinge, not quite as dark or thick as coffee but with a nice body that feels light yet substantial. Adding milk enhances the natural smoothness into something almost silky and the honey blended into the background instead of being a dominant flavor, bringing out the natural sweetness of the spices instead of feeling like an added, extra presence.
I should note that the long brewing time is partly because I didn't leave the tea on the heat while brewing. So the water was boiling when I poured it into the cup, but it cooled as it sat, so that it didn't exactly brew at 212 the entire time. If you have one of those nice devices that keeps your water at a consistent temperature the whole time, you should probably not let it steep as long as I did unless you don't mind a significantly stronger brew! I used one heaping tablespoon instead of two heaping teaspoons, but my mug is large, so it turned out to be an adequate but somewhat modest amount of tea for the amount of water and length of time spent steeping. I intend to try to get at least one more infusion from the same 'serving' of leaves/spices, but I will probably either use less water or let it steep longer, to see what the flavor is like when more concentrated. It was quite tasty, but I'm curious if it will become overly peppery or if it might just become even more delicious. Looking forward to finding out!
If you're not already a fan of spiced teas, this would be a really good one to start with, especially if you're a fan of ginger and cardamom. Their familiar presences will draw you in and make you comfortable without hiding the other aspects of the flavor profile. And if you are a masala chai fan, this is a really good selection - not just by itself, but as a component for mixing signature blends. Its flavors are strong enough to contribute something interesting, but not so strong as to wipe out other elements of the blend. It's so, so good with milk and honey, but it would be wonderful plain, too, if that's how you prefer your tea.
A little peppery for me but still pretty good. Enjoyable on a cold afternoon.
A favorite, full-bodied start to my mornings when I don't want coffee. I enjoy with some heavy cream and stevia. The cream cuts some of the strong spice.
Usually I like my tea with lots of milk and sugar, but this is the only kind that I can drink straight after steeping!
I really enjoyed this tea with honey or unsweetened.