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c) The Liquor/Brew
Desirable: body, bright, brisk, character, colour, muscatel,
point, pungent, quality, strength, thick, flavour, full,
malty, mature, self-drinking, smokey
Undesirable: baggy, bakey, bitter, brassy, burned, coarse,
common, dry, dull, musty, plain, raw, soft, stewed, sweaty,
taint, weedy, thin, earthy, empty, fruity, hard, harsh,
heavy, lacking, green (this latter referring to black tea
only)
A Tregothnan black tea early sample processed by AFP
Consultancy showed “quality, brightness and character”. A
further tasting by Wilson & Smithet detected stalks due to
our unselective plucking. In an early tasting of Tregothnan
green tea the national media ran stories proclaiming it as
‘highly quaffable’!
9) Herbal Infusions
These are not true teas in the sense that they are not
Camellia derived. This is an expanding market and Germany,
France and the UK are especially receptive to these
alternatives. Rooibos, Honeybush, Manuka and a myriad other
infusions are becoming widely available, each with some
merits. Most tend to be Southern Hemisphere plants with
South Africa prominent among sources. Fruits are
increasingly used as flavourings to true tea or an infusions
in their own right.
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