Tea Terms

Author: Barry's Tea
Original Source: Tea Fact Sheet

Like wine, tea has its own vocabulary of tasting terms. Tea can be:

• Brisk: a lively taste in the liquor
• Pungent: bite and astringency but without bitterness - most desirable
• Grey: teas which have a grayish appearance caused by too much abrasion during sorting.
  
• Even: teas true to their particular grade and which compromise particles of leaf which are even in size.
• Bright: a good bright color is an important indicator of quality in a tea.
• Body: indication of strength of tea, a lack of body would indicate a weak insipid tea