Table 3.

Judges’ preference to relative importance of quality attributes of tea liquor in general

Sensory quality attributes of tea liquor in general	Sensory scale factors and triplets associated with these factors
	Not at all important	Somewhat important	Important	Highly important	Extremely important
	(0, 0, 25)	(25, 25, 25)	(50, 25, 25)	(75, 25, 25)	(100, 25, 0)
Color and brightness	1	7	1	1	0
Aroma	1	2	5	2	0
Strength	0	0	1	2	7
Briskness	1	1	6	2	0