Today's Tea: Mom's Apple Pie

Mom's Apple Pie from DAVIDsTEA

Description: This tea will bring you right back to your childhood. Thanks to the spicy aroma of cinnamon, the sweet smell of apples baking in the oven and the fresh green tea blend. Don’t remember that last part? Okay, so we added the green tea. It’s a great way to bring all the nostalgic flavour of mom’s dessert right to your mug. So wherever you go, you’ve got the warm memories…but not the calories. Mom would approve.

Ingredients:Green tea (China), apple pieces, cinnamon, artificial flavouring

Caffeine: 2 (Medium caffeine)

How to Brew: 1.5 tsp    82°C/185°F      3-4 min

(From DAVIDsTEA: Mom's Apple Pie)


Steph's Thoughts:

Today is FALL TEA DAY at DT, which is what brought me in to the store. That, and "my favourite and my best" TeaGuide was working, and I haven't seen her in a while.
So, with the advent of the amazing Fall Tea Collection, I was excited to try something new. I bought a tin of the Pumpkin Chai (oh my WORD, worth every single cent!), and hubby got a mug (and a bag!) of the Cocoberry (a black-maté blend with berries and coffee beans, with other things thrown in). Sugar and Spice (a black tea that smells like spice cake) smelled a little too strongly of cloves for my taste tonight, so it was a toss-up between Pistachio Cream (pistachio and mulberry leaves) and Mom's Apple Pie.

I was very hesitant to try the Mom's Apple Pie, because as you all know, I'm not a big green tea fan, but the smell of apples won out.

The aroma is the perfect blend of apples with a hint of cinnamon and sweetness. It smells fresh and invokes memories of harvest. It brings to mind images of an apple orchard during the fall harvest in days of yore, with luscious ripe fruit being picked by the whole family, with a pie-baking spree to follow in the country kitchen.
And that's just the smell!

The tea is sweet to taste, and unlike some greens, doesn't get bitter with a longer steep time. I've had my bag in the cup for over an hour, and it's just a strong apple tea, rather than *spit out* bitter.

The flavour is the perfect ratio of apples to cinnamon - you can taste the cinnamon, but the spice doesn't overpower the sweet apple flavour. The tea leaves are present, but again, not overpowering.
I added a bit of agave, which provides a more pie-like flavour. I can see myself drinking this straight for a bit of a "healthy treat."

According to my TeaGuide, this was one of the fall teas from several years ago, and they've brought it back. It's a good thing too, because with flavour like this, it'll be flying off the shelves.

Verdict: Green for GO! (really, I think I'm going to pick up a tin of this. Nom Nom Nom, and that's saying something for me to like a green tea!)