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Tea

Referring to any beverage made by the infusion in hot water of the dried and prepared leaves of the Camellia sinensis shrub.

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Tea

Normally a China tea, but today could be any young tea, which is rolled into a small pellet-size ball then dried. The finished tea has a greyish appearance not unlike gunpowder in colour which is how ...

hard

Beverages; Tea

A very pungent liquor, a desirable quality in tea.

harsh

Beverages; Tea

A taste generally due to the leaf being under withered during manufacture resulting in a very rough taste.

heavy

Beverages; Tea

A thick, strong and colour liquor with limited briskness.

high-fired

Beverages; Tea

Over fired or dried, but not bakey or burned.

hyson

Beverages; Tea

A type of China green tea formerly drunk exclusively in Europe and often the name given there to the tea drink. Young Hyson is this type of tea which is plucked early.