Well, not quite.

Spice Imperial is one-of-a-kind spiced tea with such a mesmerizing scent and flavour it will easily become a top choice for a daily drinking and afternoon tea.

It’s a blend to make all your spiced tea dreams come true.

What is Spice Imperial?

Spice Imperial tea is a black tea blend from Whittard of Chelsea. Whittard knows how to make exquisite classic tea blends and Spice Imperial is absolutely delicious.

Spice Imperial tea contains a strong but mellow black tea, orange peel, cloves, safflower petals, natural bourbon vanilla extract and flavourings. While these ingredients may seem like common ingredients for a spiced tea blend, in this blend, they create a flavour and scent that’s far from common. It’s incredibly inviting and so super delicious this will easily become your favourite spiced dessert tea ever.

What makes this blend really unique and different from a regular spiced blend is that it actually contains only one spice – cloves, and a refreshing zesty orange. Spice Imperial is not an orange tea though. Instead, orange peel gives a light and appealing citrusy touch that makes this whole blend really shine.

This tea smells incredibly delicious, with dominant, but not overpowering, zesty orange notes wrapped into a sweet vanilla, cloves and black tea aroma. What’s also incredible is that you can smell all the ingredients separately, and yet they make for a perfectly balanced blend. It’s one of those blends that will fill the air with a warming aroma and make you look forward to that first sip.

What does it taste like?

When a tea smells so divine as Spice Imperial, you would expect nothing less from the flavour.

To make a perfect cup, use 1-1 ½ teaspoon of tea leaves per cup of water, steep for 3-5 minutes at 98 degrees Celsius.  

Another great thing about this tea is that it won’t get bitter, which makes it great for tea drinkers that are always in a rush and forget they were making a cup of tea. You can over-brew it and still enjoy a delicious flavour with no bitterness. It’s great on its own with no condiments, but you can add some as well.

Spice Imperial has a light astringent and smoky finish that carries all other flavour notes extremely well. Cloves are gently lingering in the back, orange peel offers a refreshing citrusy touch, and the light sweetness incorporated into a mellow and slightly smoky black tea base.

Although this tea doesn’t need any condiments, it tastes just as great with a splash of milk and some honey or brown sugar. Many spiced teas go well with milk and sugar, but what’s surprising is that Spice Imperial tastes just as great iced, and has a flavour that’s refreshing enough to enjoy it during hot weather too.

Who would like this tea? If you love orange and clove blends, you will love this tea too. But Spice Imperial is much more than a simple spiced blend. It’s a warming and refreshing tea with so much elegance that you can easily serve it at your afternoon tea party and know everyone will like it. At the first glance, this tea may look like a festive blend, but it’s much more than that. It’s elegant and classic and may appeal to tea drinkers that prefer sophisticated citrusy teas, such as lighter earl grey.

Spice Imperial Tea Recap

Water or milk? Water (or a splash of milk).

Day or night? Day.

Hot or iced? Hot.

Sweetened or Pure? Pure or with a teaspoon of honey.

Caffeine? Yes

What’s the price? Starting from 8.00 GBP.

Where to buy? Get Spice Imperial from Whittard of Chelsea website.

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What is Mulled Wine tea?

Mulled wine is a hot drink made with red wine, oranges, spices and sugar or honey. There’s no doubt mulled wine is delicious and just perfect for cold winter nights, but if you want an alcohol-free alternative, although it may sound unlikely, mulled wine teas may actually offer the same experience too.

Mulled Wine tea from Whittard is a fruit tea blend with some ingredients that are typically not common in a mulled wine tea blend – apples, hibiscus, sweet blackberry leaves and roasted chicory root. All of them are naturally caffeine free. Because of its earthy and slightly bitter flavour, roasted chicory root is probably the most known as a caffeine-free coffee alternative. This blend doesn’t contain any artificial sweeteners or sugar. Instead, a light sweeteness comes from sweet blackberry leaves. Dry tea smells very rich and fruity, with lots of zestiness, sweetness and deeper earthy notes.

How to brew this tea?

To make the best cup, use 2 rather than 1 teaspoon of tea per cup of water. Steep for 5 minutes at 100 degrees Celsius. This blend contains smaller, uniformed particles to offer a really rich infusion. If you are looking for a complete mulled wine experience, you can simmer it on the stove instead.

What’s truly amazing about this Mulled Wine tea blend is that it actually feels like a rich but gentle, real mulled wine. It has so much depth and richness, some tartness, fruitiness, sweetness and even a slight tannic note, with light clove notes. Each and every ingredient in this blend plays an important role to offer a flavour that’s as close as it gets to a real mulled wine. There are light tannic notes and depth from roasted chicory root, light sweetness from sweet blackberry leaves, tartness and zestiness from hibiscus and citric acid, and deep fruity apple base.

This is not an apple tea, and this is not a roasted chicory tea. This is a real holiday blend that you can enjoy completely guilt-free. If you prefer sweeter mulled wine, you can add a teaspoon of honey or sugar.

This blend is great for tea drinkers that love the flavour of mulled wine, zesty fruit blends and lightly spiced teas. If you love cooking with tea or want to make a holiday tea syrup, this blend would be an amazing choice too.

Need more inspiration? Find out how to make tea caviar with Mulled Wine tea.

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