It was probably irresponsible of me to post "orange pekoe" as I should have written "Red Rose" (everyone seems to know this brand!). From my, albeit limited, experience "orange pekoe" is generally used to describe largely generic black teas. I will stop there on the subject so that I don’t overstep my knowledge.

When it comes to grading tea, other than peccos, it is still just as confusing. Many Japanese teas will have words such as deluxe, supreme, superior and other descriptive words proceeding the name of the tea – it is hard to understand which are better, but I generally go with price as the indicator.

I hope this, at least in part, addresses your query.

~Cole