Mile High Chai: spiced masala chai tea
The Tea Spot’s tea buyers sampled dozens of teas and spices to find the best selections to make an authentic, yet unique premium quality chai blend for the season.
Boulder, Colorado (PRWEB) November 27, 2013
Philanthropic specialty loose leaf tea company The Tea Spot, Inc. today announced a new premium tea blend, launching for the holiday season. The new offering, Mile High Chai, exhibits distinctive flavors and spices rooted in traditional Indian masala chai tea while maintaining a high quality loose leaf tea as the base to this black tea favorite.
Mile High Chai is a spicy, fragrant tea made on a premium Assam black tea base blended with ginger root, cardamom, cinnamon, allspice, peppercorns and cloves. The red color of the peppercorns and the green cardamom pods in this loose tea blend add to the timeliness of this holiday release.
The origin of this newest Spice Tea from The Tea Spot begins over 5,000 years ago in South Asia, when it was created as a healing Ayurvedic warming tonic and digestive aid, originally without tea. With the advent of British tea plantations in India in the 19th century, tea was added to the spicy beverage. Its popularity then spread throughout South Asia, and has since persisted and spread throughout the world.
Chai is the Hindi term for tea in India. In the western world, it most often refers to a strong, sweetened black tea mixed with milk and masala, a blend of spices. The unmistakable aroma and taste of traditional Indian masala chai spices is often made up of cardamom, star anise, fennel, pepper, clove, coriander, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and sometimes cumin or saffron.
The black tea base for this blend is Assam, a strong Indian black tea. Assam is characterized by its distinctive malty aroma and honey finish to the taste. Assam tea steeps up into a dark liquor. Adding milk to the tea turns it to a characteristically ruby-amber hue.
“The Tea Spot’s tea buyers sampled dozens of teas and spices to find the best selections to make an authentic, yet unique premium quality chai blend for the season," said Maria Uspenski, The Tea Spot’s CEO. “The exquisite masala chai they developed makes a smooth and deeply flavorful latte.”
Mile High Chai is available in bulk—in five-serving sample sizes, quarter-pound bags, and one-pound bulk bags. It is available at The Tea Spot’s online tea shop, http://theteaspot.com starting at $4 for the five-serving sample size. It is also available as part of their seasonal Holiday Brews tea gift set, which combines three spiced holiday teas—Mile High Chai, Red Hot Chai, and Harvest Spice Tea—and a pair of handcrafted black porcelain teacups packed in a gift box, available at their online tea shop for $19.95.
ABOUT THE TEA SPOT: The Tea Spot is a leading producer of handcrafted loose leaf teas and creator of Steepware®—the housewares tools that make loose tea easy. Its vision to modernize the loose leaf tea experience has held steadfast since the for-profit philanthropic company was founded by Maria Uspenski in 2004, a cancer survivor drawn to the health benefits of leaf tea during her recovery. Her message is simple and powerful: tea in its freshest form renders premium flavor, unmatched health benefits, and is eco-friendly. The company's model of social entrepreneurship incorporates its mission to foster health and wellness through loose leaf tea, with its 10% Pledge. Ten percent of every sale made is donated in-kind to cancer and community wellness programs. The Tea Spot is a Boulder, Colorado-based woman owned and operated business. theteaspot.com
