Chip wrote:+1
How could one selling pots call them Yixing pots when they are made elsewhere? Again I would say clarity is important. So, Teapot made with Yixing Clay in Taiwan would be clear. More clarity would be better, such as wheel thrown, additives, etc.
Idealistic, maybe ... but isn't Yixing as a whole already too complicated for the mere mortal man without this bit of clarity?
That makes a lot of sense, and I can totally get behind it. The bit about Chinese or Brazillian Sencha sold as only Sencha would piss me off greatly.
But then what about "zisha", rather than "
Yixing Clay"? Does the name imply enough that it is from
Yixing so that you would expect them to label zisha crafted in Taiwan as "Taiwanese Zisha"? I ask as a purely academic exercise, as I have only ever seen the one shop selling Taiwanese zisha. As I said, that guy sucked, so it's not like I was going to dish out $300 for his (I think) wheel thrown zisha.
Side note on labels and categories. I had Yunnan Silver Needles in Yunnan and some legit tea folks called it "puerh". To them, "puerh" just means anything from the same trees. Flip side, I had some shou cha tonight that the guy here in Xi'an said wasn't puerh. I think he only views sheng as puerh. Seems like everyone labels the tea differently, and of course the same with clay. So while we might draw a certain distinction, many might not. Just a side thought. In the end, I completely agree with Chip, and feel like the line is to thin between omission and false advertising.
Do you own that one TIM... and a photocopier? 
