★★★★☆
Tasty, nutty, sweet, overall a lovely tea and quite festive looking.
Smooth, rich flavors offer natural sweetness and depth. This is the ideal blend to sip by the tree, on a snowy winter's evening.
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Tasty, nutty, sweet, overall a lovely tea and quite festive looking.
This tea is perfect for the holidays. It is sweet and thick with a nutty, caramel taste.
Love it! This has a lovely, rich flavor, so relaxing!
Lovely aroma and flavor. Sweet but not too much. I think it would be even better with a hint of spice.
The smell is amazing, but that didn t seem to stay with the flavor once steeped. It was bland.
Festive, nutty and smooth with a sweet caramel flavor (I find it does not need any sweetener). Tastes delightful even when over-steeped. This has quickly become a holiday favorite in my home.
This is becoming a holiday tradtition. The whole family loves the tea.
Underwhelming. It smells like YC seasonal scents, and tastes pretty similar. I was really excited about this blend, but I'll pass on ordering more.
Update: The more of this sampler I drink, the more I don't like it. This tea might have ruined the rooibos flavoring for me :/
My new favorite! So smooth with the perfect amount of nutty flavor.
This tea is a nice sweet tea but would not re-order. Too many different sweet flavors going on at once.
Oh my goodness! So very nice! A bit creamy and maybe caramel or butterscotch but more like Creme Brule at the end. Toasty and tasty. I love this one!
Really lovely rooibos. Perfect for the holiday season with a delicious nutty and warm aroma and flavor.
I really enjoyed this tea!! It was very flavorful and the aroma smelled really good!!
I wasn't sure if I liked this at first, but now I think I'm going to need to add a bigger bag of this to my next order. The caramel flavor is stronger than I expected it to be, and the nuttiness is weaker. I wish it were the other way around, but it's still a very nice tea, and very good for the Fall and Winter seasons. I'm glad I finally got a teapot with an infuser mesh fine enough to handle roobios, but I suspect I'm going to want to drink this quite a bit in the next few weeks.
This was amazing. It smelled delicious and was good even with a second brewing (although obviously much milder).
SO NICE! the apple pieces, the flower petals, the hazelnut, the caramel - it's so rich and pretty and has such a nice flavor. i'm a huge fan of the honeybush hazelnut for a late-evening tea, but this has a nicer complexity that i'll be enjoying for as long as it's around. that being said, if you're not a fan of the hazelnut/caramel/chestnut type flavors, this is not the tea for you.
A new favorite! This was really smooth and I didn't have to add any sugar.
Heady nut and caramel aroma, lovely smooth taste, the perfect holiday tea!
Calming, nutty, and decadent. My new favorite rooibos! Has more impact than the hazelnut and vanilla. The sweetness of the chestnut and apple just add another layer of complexity.
Wow, what an yummy tea! Perfect for the holidays it's sweet, nutty, slightly chocolatey, with a light floral finish.
This is a rooibos option for those of you who love the 'chestnut' flavor of Adagio teas. I always thought the chestnut black tea tasted like butterscotch or toasted caramel. This tea has the same flavors, and in some ways works better with a naturally-nutty rooibos base than the black tea original. The only downside is that I find this to be a bit too sweet on its own. I would love to mix this in a blend and add a hint of orange or spice to help balance the melty-caramel sweetness. Overall a nice holiday dessert blend.
Great wintertime tea, warms you up inside and has a festive feel
I am teaholic and have probably over 30 different tea blends in my cupboards. This is by far THE best blend I ve ever had! A gorgeous dessert tea, holiday tea, and for me my new go to whenever I want to tickle my tastebuds! I only wish this wasn t a seasonal tea! Am stocking up!
This tea smells amazing. I wish that it tasted as good. It is a very faint tasting tea.
I adore this tea! It s so warming and cozy, and with no caffeine, this will be a bit winter hit in my house. :)
Visually the tea was beautiful but I didn’t get much of a nutty flavor? I had high hopes for this but it was kinda underwhelming.
the lavender is calming and delightful. always a fan of rooibos
Smooth, nutty, deep rich flavors... I absolutely love it. I m definitely going to require more of this before it leaves for the year! It s a joy to the nose and the tastebuds.
A warm and nutty rooibos, it is still relatively tasteless as I find many red bush teas to be unless they have cinnamon or cardamom instead of artificial flavorings.
I don t always enjoy rooibos teas, but this one is fantastic. The chestnut flavor really enhances the seasonal qualities of the tea
I bought this tea last winter and when I saw it again this year I had to grab some! It tastes as nutty and rich as it smells, and it is perfect for cozy evenings in.
No like it, sorry
Nutty hazelnut infused flavor greets you with every mug. You don't get much beyond nutty from this one, but what you do get is quite enjoyable.
I bought this as a gift for my Dad and he said it is very good. Sweet and spicy.
The aroma alone is way too sweet even for me. Sometimes I can tolerate this tea, but it's not very good tasting either to make up for the bad smell.
I love hazelnut honeybush, and I love chestnut. This tea has both, and its caffeine free!!
This tea has a smooth nutty taste. The nut flavor is evident but not overbearing. It almost taste more like a nut flavor with a hint of caramel. It can be a good tea for dessert or nice morning tea with a slightly sweet flair.
A good tea to accompany baked goods, but a little bland on its own.
Really love this one! Drinking it without added sugar or milk.
This matches some of my favorite flavors: caramel, chocolate and rooibos with some fresh scents: AWESOME, simply AWESOME, morning, noon and night!!
this one is pretty good. we like to drink it before going to bed
Super good! I love the slight cocoa taste that comes through. Great for a night in snuggled up on the couch. Not my absolute favorite, but still really good. Edit: I came back to edit this one because the more I've been drinking this the more I LOVE it! My husband and I have a cup of this right before bed with a little milk and it is so smooth. It is definitely up there with my top five favorite blends.
Chocolate and caramel and hazelnut and chestnut -- oh, my! This is everything I imagined based on the description. It delivers!
Great before bed tea. I love Adagio chestnut tea but it has high caffeine so this is a good nutty nighttime substitute! Just sad I can't get it anymore! I hope it's back next Christmas!
Very seasonal and warming! Exactly what I needed this Christmas!
This is super good - a friend who is somewhat 'anti-tea' was truly impressed by this and was in total disbelief this tea is caffeine-free.
I bought this tea primarily to blend with my favorite fruit teas. But...WOW! It holds it's own without any additions...aside from a small spoonful of raw sugar. ;) The caramel-nuttiness is perfect. So delicious!! I don't detect any apple or chocolate notes, but that's fine. This is a top-notch blend! I'm buying another bag NOW before it's out of stock. It's THAT good.
A hot cup of this tea makes me feel all cozy! When having this hot tea when I am actually in a warm and cozy place during the winter, is even a cozier feeling!! I love this cozy feeling tea.
This was a comforting cup while hot, and even when I came back to finish off the last remnants once it was cold, it was sweet and pleasant. I love the rich nuttiness of it, which is by far the dominant flavor. I've never really gravitated toward 'nutty' teas outside of almond ones, so Adagio's blends have been a revelation for me!
I love this rooibos tea with its nutty flavor, especially with a little sweetener and half and half. Its good hot during the cold winter months to sit and relax while reading a good book.