There are many different kinds of tea. One only black varieties, there are several hundred names. In black tea is green, yellow and even red (Mustela altaica). Green tea differs from black almost complete absence of a specific "tea" smell and taste. The taste of his acerbic, sometimes even very astringent, accompanied by a peculiar flavor, slightly favoring a mixture of or withered leaves of strawberry and rose petals or the citrus.
Red tea has a special, strong, rich, slightly spicy flavor.
Yellow tea is produced from most of the young shoots, mainly from tea leaf buds, so all of his grades apply only to high. Yellow tea has a very pleasant, caressing taste, very soft, barely perceptible tartness and subtle, delicate flavor. Red and yellow tea produced in China.
Tea is loose (Lapsany), slabs, tile and even extracted - coffee. The best teas - those that are prepared from the two uppermost leaves of the bush, moreover, a mixture of several varieties. The way of mixing dry tea experts of various sorts are making the most aromatic and resistant "bouquets". After mixing the tea gets its name. If it includes no less than 60% of tea from a certain area (the republic or country), then the name of the area and appropriates products: Georgian, Azerbaijani, Chinese, Ceylonese, Indian tea.
However, please note that in some areas is usually done only a certain type of tea. In these cases, an indication of geographical origin already gives an idea of the type or types of finished tea. For example, Krasnodar and Ceylon tea - always black, Japanese tea from Udzhi - always green, Lapsany Taiwanese tea - usually red.
