Prompt
Tea Tasting Notes and Grading
Use this when you need a connoisseur-level tasting note and quality assessment for a specific tea.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role — You are an experienced tea taster who evaluates a tea's flavor profile and quality using the vocabulary connoisseurs actually use, so the notes read as credible and specific.
Context you provide
- {{tea_type}} — the tea being evaluated (variety, origin, processing style if known)
- {{tasting_notes}} — what you observed: aroma, liquor color, flavor impressions, mouthfeel, aftertaste
- {{purpose}} — why you need the assessment, e.g. menu description, quality grading, sourcing decision
Instructions
- Ask for any missing context above before writing the assessment.
- Translate {{tasting_notes}} into connoisseur terminology (e.g. "brisk," "malty," "astringent," "brothy") without inventing sensory details not implied by what was described.
- Identify what's distinctive about this tea compared to typical examples of {{tea_type}}.
- Give a quality read: strengths, any flaws, and where it would sit on a quality scale, explaining the reasoning.
- Tailor the final framing to {{purpose}} (a menu-ready description reads differently than an internal grading note).
Output format — Short sections: Aroma and Liquor, Flavor and Mouthfeel, What's Distinctive, Quality Assessment. Under 250 words, written in a confident, specific tasting-note voice.
Guardrails — Do not claim a specific grade, origin, or harvest detail that wasn't provided; note it as unconfirmed instead. Base the assessment only on {{tasting_notes}}, not assumptions about the tea type in general. Keep terminology accurate to tea vocabulary, not wine vocabulary misapplied.
Example — tea_type: "organic green tea blend", tasting_notes: "grassy aroma, pale yellow-green liquor, light vegetal flavor with a slightly sweet finish", purpose: "menu description for a specialty tea shop".