TEA TASTING TERMS

   Keep : Well manufactured tea with good keeping properties.
  Knobbly : Round knobbly souchong grades.
  Lacking : Clean tasting without obvious characteristics.
  Large : Large for market requirements.
  Leafy : Tea containing larger leaves than normal;
  Light : Lacking depth of colour .
  Make : Good style.
  Malty : Desirable character.
  Mellow : Well matured ; opposed to raw.
  Metallic : Bitter taste (metallic)
  Milled : Put through cutter or mill.
  Minty : Mint flavour.
  Mixed : Exaggerated form of unevenness.
  Mixed : More than one colour.
  Mouldy : Gone off through age or damaged by water.
  Muscatel : Reminiscent of vineyards : characteristic found in exceptional Darjeelings.
  Mushy : Soggy : flat.
  Musty : Suspicion of woods.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

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