To pay by check or money order,  email camille@camillestea.com.
Camille's Tea, an online shop, offers a wide-variety of gourmet, high-quality, loose-leaf teas, including flavored teas, traditional teas, green teas, herbal teas. We also sell teapots, teacups, bone china, infusers, accessories, tea cozies.
Camille's Tea, an online shop, offers a wide-variety of gourmet, high-quality, loose-leaf teas, including flavored teas, traditional teas, green teas, herbal teas. We also sell teapots, teacups, bone china, infusers, accessories, tea cozies.
Tea, similar to wine and cheese and other gourmet items, has its own language.  
The following text provides an easy introduction to tea talk.

General Tea Terms:
  • Camellia Sinensis: the scientific name for the tea plant--all tea comes from this
      plant--has thick, dark green leaves, a strong thick stem, and white or pink flowers
  • Pekoe: from the Chinese word that describes the white hairs on the side of the
      leaves of certain teas, denotes small, whole leaf tea
  • Orange Pekoe: a superior grade of black tea of larger tea leaves--nothing to do
      with oranges
  • Firing: drying tea leaves by hot air or in a wok to quickly stop fermentation
  • Tippy: an abundance of tips, the down-like white or yellow hair on the tip of
      the youngest tea leaves
  • Choppy: leaves of varying sizes
  • Souchong: a bold and round leaf
  • Agony of leaves: rolling and unfurling of the leaves in boiling water
  • Withering: reduction of moisture from fresh tea leaves by circulating air
  • Oxidation: often referred to as fermentation, exposure to cool, damp air while the oxygen reacts with the
    sap to turn the leaves to a dark color
tea terms