Posts Tagged ‘grades of tea’

Like the wine ratings scale, tea has grade levels.  If you see random letter groupings at the tea shop you know you’ve got a good supplier that understands higher quality teas.  The different tea grades are (from lowest to highest):   Dust:  Break open your average lipton tea bag and you’ll see what this means. Fannings:  Broken leaves. P – Pekoe:  Attributed origin…