this website has been up and running for quite sometime... saw it as early as January this year while going through GrayNics 2014 range...they grow their own willow so their grading is always going to be ambiguous...like in the UK they have names instead of grades STRIKE,4 STAR,5 STAR,PLAYERS,TEST,LE etc., here in India they have numbers for grades ranging from GN1(their lowest offering) to GN10(their highest offering)...Gn1,2,3(Grade 4s),,Gn4,4.5,5 etc(Grade 3s),,Gn6,7(Grade 2s),,Gn8,9(Grade 1s),,Gn 10(LE) ...the above grading is my assumption(which is mainly based on cost comparision) because the retailers here have no idea and distributors won't tell...