Vanilla chai is a variant on spiced tea or masala chai which involves a blend of tea, usually black tea, with spices and vanilla. Spiced tea originated in India, where it is properly called masala chai. Vanilla, an ingredient originating in central America and not commonly used in India, is added to the mixture of spices, leading to a tea that is creamy in character and rather different from most teas sold as "chai". Vanilla chai has become popular in the U.S.
This category is for blends of tea with spices and scented/flavored with vanilla. For teas flavored with vanilla but not containing other spices, see vanilla black tea.
Style: Vanilla Chai – Region: ?????
My favorite le Bigelow! Is quite FINE! I drink this stuff to get a good taste, what can I say... I love le Bigelow.... To get further into description: The flavors are well balanced. Good balance between Chai & Vanilla flavors, and it has a quality Chai flavor, let me tell you... I recommend this. To one, and to all.
The aroma is sweet and creamy with a nice blend of spices. Steeping the teabag brings out the vanilla creaminess and reminds me of non dairy vanilla creamy. Not much in the way of tea aroma at all.
This tea doesn't smell much like chai, it smells like a combination of orange peel and caramel. I actually really like the flavor, though. I had to brew it for 7 minutes to make it strong enough. The flavors blend together pretty well. I added cream and sugar.