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I have too much tea [and not enough pots]
Posted: Feb 23rd, '12, 22:02
by etorix
Hi ive bin lurking here quite a lot, i love the pot threads
thought it was time to show a pot or three, now i finally joined
which i will [once i picture them]
im fairly happily confused about tea still , i'm buying samples from everywhere
tho today's session is a Dragon Well from Canton Teas
im about to try one of the 11 packets that arrived from teafromtaiwan today ..
Re: I have too much tea [and not enough pots]
Posted: Feb 23rd, '12, 22:07
by Chip
Hi etorix and welcome to TeaChat!
I am looking forward to seeing you around the forum and your teapot photos.
Re: I have too much tea [and not enough pots]
Posted: Feb 23rd, '12, 23:37
by AdamMY
Welcome etorix. As much as we love tea here, quite a few of us love teaware too. Stick around and engage in discussions and you may soon need to buy a bigger place to better store your teaware.
Re: I have too much tea [and not enough pots]
Posted: Mar 10th, '12, 08:30
by etorix
dunno which section quite to post this in, but since this is my first year of relative tea-obsession, i have questions
New Tea: what teas are specially good freshly picked / produced
New Tea: which suppliers to be watched for the 2012s
heres a short song [kouta] from the Kanginshu
"i have a jar for new tea"
"but when i put it in, it is last year's tea"
"and i dont understand last year's tea"
ref: The Kanginshu is a collection of popular songs compiled in 1518, although it is uncertain who actually collected and edited the songs.
http://komuso.com/pieces/pieces.pl?piece=3553
Re: I have too much tea [and not enough pots]
Posted: Mar 10th, '12, 09:40
by Chip
Greens are the most notable for for freshness of "new harvests." Next would be greener oolongs.
New harvest is often celebrated, and it is even here. There is a Shincha ordering topic located under Green Tea. Shincha means "new harvest" in Japanese.
Re: I have too much tea [and not enough pots]
Posted: Mar 10th, '12, 09:52
by Chip
Re: I have too much tea [and not enough pots]
Posted: Mar 10th, '12, 10:10
by etorix
shin cha Shincha (新茶?), literally "new tea",
cha being tea
shin im not sure of, is it more than 'new'
i once stayed in a part of Tokyo called Shinokubo, which was near Okubo
so is that New Okubo? it felt more like next-to-okubo, or approaching-okubo
approaching-tea seems works
ok, so the Kagoshima boys bear watching
Re: I have too much tea [and not enough pots]
Posted: Mar 10th, '12, 10:20
by Proinsias
Welcome
Better to have have too much tea and not enough pots than the other way around.
As others have mentioned shincha is top of my list when thinking about freshness, keeping an eye on the shincha thread each year is probably the best way to research vendors.
Some pre-ming long jing would also be a good bet. I find
Jing tea shop has a nice balance of quality and price for Chinese greens. Their everyday greens are often excellent for the price and higher end greens can be ordered by the ounce.
Postcard Teas and
TeaSmith in London are worth a visit if you've not already been.
Fresh tea is good, but old is often better imo.
Re: I have too much tea [and not enough pots]
Posted: Mar 10th, '12, 12:35
by TokyoB
Proinsias wrote:
Better to have have too much tea and not enough pots than the other way around.
True enough but if one sticks around here long enough they'll usually end up with too much of both!
Re: I have too much tea [and not enough pots]
Posted: Mar 10th, '12, 13:12
by etorix
Postcard Teas ive heard of, their pot prices are a bit scary tho
i believe their tea sources are shared by a guy who sells at Borough Market
i've lost the link to his site tho .. and more importantly, the site/name of a lady in Notting Hill Gate who has both Chaozhou pots and DanCongs
Fortnums is kinda fun to buy tea at. They have Tie Guan Yin, amongst other teas, in vast jars behind the counter, and they will get em down for u to sniff.
they dont wrap yer tin of tea in brown paper and strongstring [with a loop to carry it by] anymore tho, like back in the day
Re: I have too much tea [and not enough pots]
Posted: Mar 10th, '12, 14:28
by etorix
Found her:
http://www.the-chinese-tea-company.com/ ... aPots.html
ive not bought anything off her online, i keep meaning to drop by [and see if theres any reasonable old pots on the Portobello]
ive pretty much had enough of buying pots online, i want my next ones to be in-my-hand like
Re: I have too much tea [and not enough pots]
Posted: Jul 21st, '12, 14:45
by iovetea
etorix wrote:Found her:
http://www.the-chinese-tea-company.com/ ... aPots.html
ive not bought anything off her online, i keep meaning to drop by [and see if theres any reasonable old pots on the Portobello]
ive pretty much had enough of buying pots online, i want my next ones to be in-my-hand like
that prices are even scarier
Re: I have too much tea [and not enough pots]
Posted: Jul 22nd, '12, 02:20
by sriracha
Please tell us what you thought of the shop if you go, I'm planning a London trip and would very much like to know if the place is worth a visit. =)
Re: I have too much tea [and not enough pots]
Posted: Jul 22nd, '12, 04:05
by etorix
sriracha wrote:
Please tell us what you thought of the shop if you go, I'm planning a London trip and would very much like to know if the place is worth a visit. =)
her shop is well up Portobello Road, in a modern mall under the railway line
and well worth a visit .. tho when i went she was just about to go back to China for a re-stock
she also has Chaozhou Pots, which i want one of
Re: I have too much tea [and not enough pots]
Posted: Jul 22nd, '12, 04:13
by sriracha
etorix wrote:sriracha wrote:
Please tell us what you thought of the shop if you go, I'm planning a London trip and would very much like to know if the place is worth a visit. =)
her shop is well up Portobello Road, in a modern mall under the railway line
and well worth a visit .. tho when i went she was just about to go back to China for a re-stock
she also has Chaozhou Pots, which i want one of
Thanks a million, I've ogled their website may times but never come across someone who has actually been there.
Curious about those tea-tasting evenings, I think I'll drop them an email and ask about dates in October.
