| TERM DESCRIBING DRY LEAF
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| Attractive
|
well
made:uniform in colour, size and texture |
| Black
|
tea
which has been allowed to ferment as opposed to green tea: also
describes colour |
| Blister |
blistering of leaf caused by too rapid removal of moisture |
| Bloom |
sheen or lustre |
| Bold |
pieces
of leaf that are too big for a grade |
| Broken |
broken
b y rolling or passing through a cutter |
| Bold
Broken |
broken
by rolling or passing through a cutter |
| Brown |
describes
colour |
| Case
Hardening |
applies
mainly to orthodox teas : when outside casing becomes fully
fired and prevents core from losing moisture: bold grapenutty
CTCs are also susceptible to case-hardening |
| Chesty |
resinous smell / taste caused by immature or inferior panels
or battens. |
| Cheesy
|
smell
/ taint caused by inferior glue of panels |
| Choppy |
chopped in a breaker mill or cutter rather than in the roller |
| Chunky |
brokens which are large : desirable feature when applied to
tip |
| Clean
|
evenly
sorted grade free from quantities of other grades, stalk and
fibre
|
| Crepy |
crimped appearance |
| Curly |
opposite to wiry |
| Cut |
synonymous with choppy |
| Common |
plain |
| Discoloured
leaf |
(self-explanatory) |
| Dull |
lacking bloom DULL TIP opposed to bright |
| Dusty |
leaf tea containing smaller particles |
| Even |
consisting of pieces of roughly equal size |
| Fibrous |
presence of excessive fibre |
| Flaky |
flat, open, poorly made tea |
| Flat |
open and flaky |
| Golden
Tip |
denotes colour of tip |
| Grainy |
well-made hard leaf |
| Grapenutty
|
leaf
balled in the process of manufacture |
|
Grey |
colour of leaf |
| Gritty |
leaf which feels hard to the touch |
| Hairy |
thin fibre: similar to whiskery |
| Irregular |
uneven whole leaf grades |
| Keep |
well-manufactured tea with good keeping properties |
| Knobbly |
round knobbly souchong grades |
| Large
|
large
for market requirements |
| Leafy |
tea containing larger leaves than normal coupled with `useful',
denotes a size in demand |
| Make
|
good
style |
|
Milled |
put through cutter or mill |
| Mixed |
exaggerated form of unevenness |
| Neat |
good leaf of even appearance |
| Open |
opposed to twisted or rolled |
| Pale
Tip |
(self-explanatory) |
| Powdery |
very fine light dust, the particles of which tend to cohere
|
| Pulverised |
dusts containing milled or pulverised fibre |
| Ragged |
rough, shaggy and uneven |
| Red |
(self-explanatory) |
| Rough |
irregular and not well made |
| Sandy |
containing sand |
| Shelly |
shell-like appearance |
| Shotty |
well-made souchong |
| Silvery
Tip |
(self-explanatory) |
| Small |
small size than normal |
| Spongy |
flat flaky |
| Stalky |
excessive
stalk |
| Stylish |
superior appearance |
| Tippy |
generous tip |
| Twist |
imparted during rolling |
| Uneven
|
containing
uneven pieces |
| Useful |
possessing good blending qualities |
| Well-made |
uniform in colour, size and texture |
| Well-Twisted |
(self-explanatory) |
| Whiskery |
fine hairy fibre: see also hairy |
| Wild |
end season teas having reddish appearance |
|
Wiry |
stylish,
thin whole leaf |
