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A Little Tea-Learning To Stir The Mind
TEA WORDS
Do you know your leaves from your roots; your Ayurvedic; and Chinese from your Kenyan? It's about to all be cleared up. We've plucked terminology from the annals of history …
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AGONY OF THE LEAVES
Meaning: unfurling of tea leaves while brewing the perfect cup of tea.
AYURVEDIC
Meaning: Ayurveda comes from two Indian words: ayur, meaning life and veda, meaning knowledge or science. Ayurvedic herbs enhance health and wellbeing, increases longevity and ultimately brings fulfilment of one’s own potential.
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BAKY
Meaning: Almost burnt; a bad taste caused by firing the leaf at too high a temperature
BLACK
Meaning: Black tea is green tea that has been oxidised through the fermentation process and globally is the most common tea.
BLEND
Meaning: A tea, which is not a single variety but rather mixtures of different teas. Blending creates distinctive flavours.
BODY
Meaning: The texture and strength of the tea in the mouth
BOTANY
Meaning: The study of the biology of plants. It’s vital that when we chose a herb for a specific purpose that the herb is the right one.
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CHARACTER
Meaning: There are many varieties of herbs, each with distinct characteristics; scent, look, taste etc.
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DUST
Meaning: The small particles left over when the leaves are sorted and crushed.
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EARTHY
Meaning: Herbs that have a natural woody, grassy, soil-like smell. May also refer to the smell caused by storage of tea in damp conditions.
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FINISH
Meaning: The impression left on your tongue after drinking.
FLAT
Meaning: Not fresh/old. Tea tends to lose its features and taste with age, unlike those wines, which get better with age.
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GRASSY
Meaning: Tastes and/or smells like fresh cut grass and is sometimes citrusy.
GREEN TEA
Meaning: Unfermented tea, which has a green or yellow colour once brewed.
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HEAVY
Meaning: A thick strong tea.
HERBAL TEA
Meaning: A tea not made from the tea plant, but from herbs, berries, roots and flowers. Herbal teas are tisanes rather than camellia sinensis. Herbal teas such as those sold by us, have medicinal effects.
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Infusion
Meaning: A blend or tisane (see above)
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Kenya
Meaning: An African country which produces some of the best teas globally, owing to its rich, fertile soil, which produces a deep amber tea.
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Liquor
Meaning: The brewed tea.
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Nose
Meaning: The aroma of the tea.
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Oxidation
Meaning: The process of heating that changes the leaf to oolong or black tea. Green tea is barely oxidised; delicate white tea is not oxidised at all.
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Plucking
Meaning: Harvesting of the tea.
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Tea
Meaning: The drink that comes from brewing the leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant.