sencha.com still active?

I have had much better results from Ken Hagimura at

Their selction is not quite as large but the quality has been exceptional.

The page is in Japanese only but you can run it through one of the online translators. Ken has sent me some VERY good shincha at prices that are better than sencha.com

Mike

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Very interesting experience you had there Crymad, especially since I stopped into Ito En the day before yesterday -- decided *not* to buy any tea when they told me they didn't know whether the sencha they were now selling was

2004 or 2005 because they get it from Ito En central in Japan, and the mother ship doesn't tell them -- and fantasized that Ito En had bought out Sencha.com. Yes, fantasized. I fantasize about things like that. God knows why.

Michael

Tea sellers blend tea for sale.Blend the tea of 2004 and 2005 together.

Japanese keep tea in good condition. It is possible that a tea taste master can differentiate tea of year 2004 and 2005.

Mundell Roll

This shouldn't prove too challenging. Why, with expiration dates sometimes just 6 months from production printed on the bags, tasting isn't even necessary.

--crymad

[Mundell.Roll] [crymad] [Michael] And given the sometimes poor quality of the actual tea beyond the hype, tasting isn't even advised. (Just joking -- sort of; I like Sencha.)

BTW, I've decided that the good folks at Ito En are clowns. The salesperson there a couple days ago informed me that beyond the Shin Chas, she was unable to tell me whether the current stock was 2005 or 2004 because they get their teas from the company in Japan, and the company just sends it periodically without informing them (here in NYC) when they change over to this year's tea. If I'm not mistaken, once upon a time, they sold tea by the gram; now an ounce is their smallest available quantity.

Any further word on Sencha.com?

M

Michael, I think I worked with you many years ago in Ginza at L. I thought your name sounded familiar. That's amazing. If you're the Michael Plant that I know you were always a clever guy and it isn't unimaginable that you would be into tea as well. Wow. You were writing a novel, if I recall.

Rufus

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Rufus,

Much as I would like to take credit for being *the* Michael Plant, I am, alas and apparently, but one of many.

Michael

Nope. Aren't they and Grey & Seddon partners of some sort?

--crymad

You may have a doppelganger in Tokyo. Watch out, he's writing novels under your name! Don't touch him or you'll both explode. Or maybe not.

Rufus

Been reading A Brief History of Time? LOL Marlene