teataster

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a professional who samples, evaluates, and grades tea for quality, flavor, aroma, or blending

   The teataster compared infusions from six estates before approving the blend.

A compound of tea + taster. Open tea taster and hyphenated tea-taster are also common spellings. The occupation developed within the commercial tea trade, where trained tasters compare batches for grading, purchase, and blending.

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