magicleaf > wrote:
>How does the opacity of the tea when it is poured define the quality,
>like for example I had a high quality japanese sencha and it was light
>green yellow and very clear then I had one which was lower quality and
>it was a little cloudy. I s this true of all teas in general?

Not really. Cloudiness is usually the result of dissolved tannins linking
up together and not staying dissolved. It an also be the result of hard
water.

A tea that is more tannic will tend to be more cloudy. If you ice tea
down, it will tend to become cloudy too since the tannins don't stay in
solution as well at the lower temperature.

For a sencha, I could believe that the higher quality ones would have
less tannin, but the same may not be the case for an assam.
--scott


--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."