| TERM DESCRIBING LIQUORS
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| |
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| Autumnal
|
(Self-explanatory) |
| Baggy
|
taint
from hessian or sacking. |
| Bakey
|
caused by high temperature during firing. |
| Biscutty
|
pleasant characteristic. |
| Body |
A liquor having both fullness and strength as opposed to being
thin. |
| Bouquet
|
superlative
flavor. |
| Brassy |
metallic
taste. |
| Bright |
opposed to dull. |
| Brisk
|
opposed to flat or soft. |
| Burn |
fully
fired. |
| Burnt |
subjected to extremely high temperature. |
| Character
|
desirable quality:also permits recognition of origin |
| Clean
|
lacking
in character but no unpleasant taint or taste |
| Coarse |
unpleasant
taste. |
| Cold
Weather |
tea
produces after monsoons. |
| Colour |
(Self-explanatory) |
| Coloury |
depth of colour. |
| Contamination
|
foreign
taste. |
| Creamy
|
precipitate obtained after cooling. |
| Dry |
slightly high-firied. |
| Dull
|
Neither
clear or bright,nor lively or brisk. |
| Earthy |
taste due to storage under damp conditions. |
| Empty |
lacking fullness and substance. |
| Fine
|
exceptional
quality and flavor |
| Flat
|
lifeless:
lacking briskness |
| Flavouyr
|
(Self-explanatory) |
| Fruity |
unpleasant overripe taste. |
| Full
|
processing
colour : strength and substance. |
| Fully
Fired |
slightly
over-fired. |
| Geranium |
reminiscent
of aroma of geranium found in certain Darjeelings. |
| Gone
off |
past
its time. |
| Golden |
(Self-explanatory) |
| Grassy |
teas
without physical or chemical wither |
| Green/Greenish |
early first flush. |
| Hard |
penetrating and desirable strength. |
| Harshness |
raw characteristics. |
| Heavy
|
thick without briskness |
| High-fired |
(Self-explanatory) |
| Lacking |
clean tasting without obvious characteristics.
|
| Light |
lacking depth of colour. |
| Malty
|
desirable
character. |
| Mellow |
well matured : opposed to raw. |
| Metallic |
bitter metallic taste. |
| Minty |
mint-like
flavor. |
| Mouldy |
gone off through age or damaged by water. |
| Muscatel
|
Desirable
character in Darjeeling teas. A grapey taste. |
| Mushy |
flat:soggy.
|
| Muscatel |
reminiscent
of vineyards: characteristic found in exceptional Darjeelings. |
| Musty |
A suspicion of mold. |
| New
|
not
having had sufficient time to mellow. |
| Nose |
aroma. |
| Out
of Condition |
(Self-explanatory) |
| Old |
see
flat. |
| Pale |
lacking
colour except in GREEN teas where liquors should be pale. |
| Papery |
paper
taint. |
| Peachy |
flavor of certain fine Darjeelings. |
| Pinky |
brighter
more pink and delicate then coloury. |
| Point |
most desirable brightness and acidity. |
| Pointy |
having
good point. |
| Pre
- Autumnal |
(Self-explanatory) |
| Pungent |
ideal combination of briskness, brightness, strength and flavor.
|
| Quality |
essential characteristics of good tea. |
| Rains/Rainy |
North
Indian teas produces during monsoons |
| Raspberry |
flavor akin to raspberry. |
| Raw
|
immature. |
| Red
|
(Self-explanatory) |
| Rich
|
mellow
liquor abundant in quality and thickness. |
| Round
|
full
smooth liquor. |
| Scorched
|
associated
with dryness. |
| Self-drinking
|
palatable
in itself not requiring blending. |
| Slatey
|
describes
colour |
| Smoky |
(Self-explanatory) |
| Soggy
|
heavy
dull liquor. |
| Soft
|
opposite of brisk. |
| Spicy
|
Character
suggestive to spice. |
| Stale |
(Self-explanatory) |
| Stewed
/Stewy |
incorrectly
fired. |
| Strength/Strong |
Substance in cup |
| Sweaty
|
unpleasant
taste. |
| Taint
|
foreign Characteristic. |
| Thick |
opposed to thin. |
| Thin |
lacking body. |
| Tinny |
(Self-explanatory) |
| Tired |
flat
through age. |
| Toasty |
caused
by over- firing. |
| Unsound |
tainted
or lacking keeping properties |
| Weathery |
unpleasant
taste on some rains teas |
| Wild |
autumnal
teas past their prime. |
| Woody |
sawdust-like
character |
| Winey |
overfermented
under sterile condition |
| Weedy |
thin : cabbagy |
