Tuesday 17 April 2007

Darjeeling Tea-Grading Acronyms and their Meanings

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FOP - Flowery Orange Pekoe
GFOP - Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe
TGFOP - Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe
FTGFOP - Fine Tippy Golden Orange Pekoe
SFTGFOP - Super Fine Tippy Golden Orange Pekoe
SFTGFOP-1 - Super Fine Tippy Golden Orange Pekoe (top grade)
BOP1- Broken Orange Pekoe One
GFBOP - Golden Flowery Broken Orange Pekoe
BPS - Broken Pekoe Souchong
GBOP - Golden Broken Orange Pekoe
FBOP - Flowery Broken Orange Pekoe
BOP - Broken Orange Pekoe
TGOF - Tippy Golden Orange Fannings
GOF - Golden Orange Fannings
OF - Orange Fannings
YH - Young Hyson
FYH - Fine Young Hyson
GP - Gun Powder
H - Hyson
FH - Fine Hyson
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1 comments:

ahnn said...

This is great information. I now know what those acronyms mean.

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