Hey guys
The green tea season has kickstarted! Check out this interesting piece of news in DIGG that came up last weekend, about a Chinese man who pays $14,000 dollars for 200 grams of top grade Dragon Well tea made by TEN frying kings!
Any thought on the best pick this season?
I hope none of us is naive enough to think this isn't a marketing/ publicity gimmick.
Phyll
I wonder how much this guy will be willing to put out for 200 grams of the original Da hong pao. $14,000...that's quite a few silver teapots...
Spammer.
I thought this was a marketing gimmick as well.
There was another news I came across that mention somebody pays a very high price for the the first pick from the 18 tea imperial bushes of Emperor Qian Long.
These 18 tea bushes are hundreds of years old, not producing any great quantity of tea, and were given "yu" or imperial status when Emperor Qian Long visited West Lake during one of his vacations.
Historically they are very important for West Lake Dragon Well tea.
I wonder if the same man has bought this tea. And if this tea was made by the ten best fryers in the region, it naturally attracts a premium.
Just a thought - that part of China is full of rich people these days.
Julian
TEN frying kings, nine ladies dancing, eight maids a-milking...
snipped-for-privacy@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote in news:euj6m1$72i$1 @panix2.panix.com:
...two types of pu, and a partridge in a 100-year-old tea tree.
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