Assam CTC Black Tea - BOP Grade

Product Description

Assam CTC tea is divided in different grades depending on the size of the tea grains that are produced as a result of the CTC process. These different sizes of grains are sorted according to the size and graded.

BOP or Broken Orange Pekoe are large granular CTC tea. Assam Tea makes a strong cup with bright colour and can be had with milk and sugar.

Crush, Tear, and Curl (also Cut, Twist, Curl) is a method of processing black tea, similar to that of orthodox tea manufacture. Instead of the leaves being rolled as a final stage, they are passed through a series of cylindrical rollers with hundreds of small sharp "teeth" that Crush, Tear, and Curl. In CTC tea, brokens are highest quality followed by fannings and dusts. Today, most of the black tea produced are of CTC manufacture, or by the closely related rotovane orthodox manufacture. CTC and rotovane orthodox have a finished product is well suited for tea bags, as it quickly gives a coloury brew.

In the Indian domestic market, this type of manufacture is by far the most popular - over *0% of tea production is of the CTC type, amounting to approximately **0 million kg. In the export market, particularly in the C.I.S., the Middle East, United Kingdom and Ireland, CTC teas continue to be the most highly in demand.