The instruments tea.degree is actually built around.

Everything below runs in your browser. There is no account, no server, and nothing you enter is uploaded anywhere — sessions persist in this browser's local storage until you clear them.

Aroma

Sensory wheel

16 primary families opening into 64 descriptors, each with an English, 中文 and Russian gloss. Tap a family, tap a descriptor, build a tasting phrase.

Open the tool → Rubric

Ten-axis scoring

10 sliders — dry leaf through overall harmony — summing to a 100-point reference. Sessions save to this device only.

Open the tool → Calibration

Blind tasting

Score the cup on the same ten-axis form before you know which reference tea it is, then reveal the published standard and compare.

Open the tool → Radar

Compare overlay

Overlay three to five saved sessions on one ten-axis radar — see where a tea over- or under-performs against the others.

Open the tool →

Not sure where to begin

Start with the six-week calibration programme.

Six reference teas, one per week, with a progress tracker built around the same protocol Chen Hui Yi runs with new staff at our Guǎngdōng cupping room.

Start the six-week programme →