Chocolate Tea

Through thick and thick, warm and cold, frigid to frantic, restless to listless, hopeful to cup-full. . . tea is there for us. Now chocolate is here, too, with tea. More specifically, the chocolate is the tea. Made from a house-blend of freshly & delicately-roasted husks from our single-origin Haitian and Guatemalan cacao beans, chocolate tea is unlike any other beverage in our teabag-box basket. (Don't know about you, but we love a basket brimming with teaboxes.) It shares a consistency with other herbal teas, so is not to be confused with the more familiar beverage of eternal youth and holiday cheer that goes by the deceptively similar descriptor, "hot chocolate". Chocolate tea is hot, all right; it is hot and it is chocolate. But hot chocolate it is not. It's light and airy, naturally sweet and rustic, with a deep, chocolatey aroma that lifts our spirit any time of day.  Its sips and smells are calming, even as they remind us that energy is sometimes a choice as much as a daily