I was looking around for a new infuser basket for my Chatsworth teapot and found
Gyokuru from Japan - Gyokuru means "Jewel Dew". This is a fine, rare tea with fresh, sweet aroma and excellent flavour. It is very low in tannins.
and the price?
Pen
That's per 1000 grams, not 100...just FYI. And it's
Melinda
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.
Sorry, but this just begs for the punch line:
"That's a price for tea for *drinking* not smoking?
Warren
seems to me that most things Japanese end up being expensive even if the quality isn't that good; Japan is in style here in the states, and they know it.
dunno about the price of your tea and pot...i just felt like making an editorial statement. OT, sorry. heh.
Mydnight
-------------------- thus then i turn me from my countries light, to dwell in the solemn shades of an endless night.
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