Grade

Term used to describe a tea leaf or particle size of leaf. Green Tea Tea that is withered, immediately steamed or heated to kill the enzymes and then rolled and dried. It has a light appearance and flavour.

Gunpowder

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 the tea gets its name.

Gyokuro

A high-grade Japanese tea produced by a special process in the Uji district of Japan. It is made from tea grown on shaded bushes. Hankerchief tea A tea which was grown on Formosa and which gets its name from the large silk hankerchiefs that Chinese