Pu-erh - To drink now - To drink later - To store - To invest

My humble suggestion is to spend $120 on pu'er that you can keep long term and $120 on tea that you can drink now. Then keep the temptation in check from buying more tea for the rest of the year (good luck with that).

For keeps, perhaps Xiaguan Teji Tuocha or the Tibetan Baoyan mushrooms. For now, perhaps a tong of ripe/cooked pu'er from Menghai brand

The above items should be available at Yunnan Sourcing LLC.

Phyll

Shen wrote:

Hi,

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T.

Shen wrote:

I don't consider any tea a financial investment. You'll buy more than you can drink and should be able to enjoy it in the years to come. The memories are the investment. I've got many 20 year old teas and several over 30. I can remember the day I bought them. On your budget you'll have to buy 100g,250g and single cakes from stateside vendors. If it was my $20 I'd buy shu which is cheaper than sheng on a per gram basis. It has dried up but last year in my Chinatown you could buy 7 cake tongs of 2003 Xiaguan shu for $18. Individual cakes are $10 on TaoBao when I last checked. The price of puer is going up no matter what you buy. A couple of years ago I would pay $10/kg now it is $30/kg and more.

Jim

Shen wrote:

Save your money for a few months and buy a nice lot from a good eBay vendor like Yunnan Sourcing, Dragon Tea House, etc., to make the shipping worth it. For example, I was able to buy eight different teas (six kinds of sheng pu'er and two kinds of oolong) and two simple, white gaiwans for $91 shipped from Yunnan Sourcing. Not bad at all. And that order alone is a bit more than 2 kilos (2021 g) of tea. Let's assume I use 5g in a 150-ml pot. In that case, that order of tea represents 404 of those 5-g servings, or 404 Gong Fu sessions. And with all the infusions possible per pot, the economy becomes even more attractive. So that $91 bought me more than a year of daily drinking.

I agree buy in bulk.

Just bought some from Holy mountain, not impressed with the size for the money.

Stick with ebay vendors.

But be patient on shipping time.

Karl

Ben R. wrote: