After checking and double-checking the ingredients list to be sure that "spiced" didn't mean it was going to kill me (capsaicin is of the Devil), I bought a sample package of David's Tea's Spiced Apple tisane. I'm glad that I did. It's really quite good and definitely several steps above the Celestial Seasonings version of spiced apple.
As a "spiced" tea should be, it's made spicy with cloves and cardamom. The tisane also contains apple pieces (duh), figs, star anise, chircory, and black pepper(?!). Apparently one can't have a David's Tea tisane without at least one ingredient that makes you go WTF?? The apple, fig and star anise pieces are large, making it nearly impossible to brew this tea in a small tea ball. Fortunately I have a few large brewing baskets that allowed to me fit the ingredients.
The aroma is amazing -- a heady fall day full of apples and chai. The flavor has a tartness to it, like a Granny Smith apple. It's not an apple pie tea. It's an apple cider tea. If that makes any sense.
Combining the hot tea half and half with hot apple cider was an amazing success. The tartness of the tea blends the sweetness of the cider quite nicely. It adds all of the spicy qualities of mulling the cider without the hard work.
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