Cloning

Cuttings taken from old tea bushes to produce new tea bushes. Today most tea bushes are grown from clones or cuttings taken from older bushes.

Congou

A general term used to describe all black China teas regardless of the area in which they are grown and made.

Country Greens

A term originally used to describe China green teas, other than Hoochows or Pingsueys.

Darjeeling

A tea growing area in North India on the foothills of the Himalayas Mountains. Teas grown here take their name from the area and are said to be the Champagneof Indian teas. Grown at altitudes up to 7,000ft above sea level ( more than 1,291m) Darjeeling tea is known as a high-grown tea and is light in colouring with a delicate, muscatel flavour