Tagged: tea grading
Article · Trade & Tariffs
The Tea Trade Fought to Keep America's Border Tea Tasters
From 1897 to 1996 the US sampled every lot of imported tea against a federal standard. The trade lobbied to keep it, and paid the meeting expenses of the board that recommended the standard.
Article · Explainers
A Tea's Grade Is a Size Code, Not a Quality Score
A tea's grade, OP, BOP, PD, Dust, is a sorting code, not a quality score, and it is the single biggest reason two kilos of tea from the same garden sell for very different prices at auction.
Guide · Markets & Prices
The Price of Tea
What fixes a tea's price at the point of sale, why the real-terms trend has run downhill for a century, where the money goes once the leaf clears the gate, what moves it between sales, and what a certification label actually adds.