would you pay this?

I did a little figuring just for comparison...that's around $38.00 US for

100 grams. For comparison (and I'm not saying the teas are the same, since I don't know that) Holy Mountain has a "1st grade Gyokuro" for $22 for a quarter pound (very roughly 115 grams) and Gray and Seddon has a variety of different gyokuros ranging anywhere from around $25 for 100 grams to $90 for 100 grams. Sooo....I guess the price spread as always depends on how fine the tea is in the end and most of all how rare. Personally I wouldn't necessarily balk at getting tea for $60 a 100 grams as long as I didn't have to buy ten times that much at once...it changes the perspective :) I'd also need to trust the company I was buying it from pretty strongly since I wouldn't be able to test what I was getting as it were, unless they offered smaller sample sizes. No affiliation with any of the vendors and no experience with any of them pro or con, as a note...

Melinda

Think of it as 100 quid a liang. Then be pleased with yourself that you're not spending said amount on a jasmine.

Also, I find it hard to imagine, with a tea as fragile as Gyokoru, drinking up 1000g while it's still fresh.

/Lew

I had some real nice gyokoru once, a 50g packet, split it up with a friend, and drank the rest in one day. Man it was good.

Ian

TEN quid a liang?? That's a different matter.

At this bargain basement price it's possibly sold to be eaten, Lew?

No affiliations, just apologies to vendor.