Where do I go from here?

[Mr Wigster]

I've got about 1 serving left of green tea in my green tea sampler kit, so I am looking at what to buy next in the way of Green Tea.

In my starter kit there was:
Genmai Cha, Green Pekoe, Gunpowder and Citron Green.

The Green Pekoe was probably my favourite.



I am hoping to try some Matcha (Latté style) as that looks nice, though I have no clue where to buy it, so if you could point me to a website that'd be great.


I was really hoping to be able to go to a good green tea lounge, but it appears there are none near me. (Cardiff, Wales, UK)


So what would you recommend as some next "Taster" teas, after the starter kit, Sencha and Matcha seem to have good appeal to me, but please advise me .

Any advice is greatly welcomed.
Alex Wigmore.

[hpulley]

I've receive good matcha, whisks and service from both O-cha.com and Maikotea.com and both seem to offer a 'starter set' of a sort by giving you a modest saving on buying some matcha, a bowl, a whisk and a scoop to start. But... you might want to ease into stronger Japanese green teas a bit by trying some senchas first. Or get both!

[Oni]

There have been lots of topics about vendors that sell japanese tea, chinese tea, taiwanese tea, read about them, a well documented buyer can`t go wrong, welcome to the tea world, it seems you have been bitten by the green tea bug.

[Jack_teachat]

Shincha!

At this time of the year you really can't go wrong if you order from a decent vendor!

Welcome to the forum from a fellow Brit!

Jack

[hooksie]

http://www.denstea.com/index.php?main_p ... 0407f6f5a2

This is the Den's tea starter that pack that has always been a good buy, although it appears they dropped the teapot that used to be included in favor of a lower sampler price point...

O-cha is also pretty well known, although I can't seem to find any sort of sampler on their site.

[Oni]

Simple mathemathics, samples cost a lot, I had samples with japanese green tea, and each individual bag was nitro flushed, bassaro gave free samples on it`s opening, from each product they had, but this year they cannot afford to do this, so the sample pack costs 1000 Yen, it is a lot of work when a teashop buys it`s tea already nitro packed in 100 gram packs, reopening them and sorting it in 5 gram mini nitro flushed packs would be too expencieve.
I think o-cha has only high quality tea, so you can`t go wrong trying any of them.

[iannon]

Simple mathemathics, samples cost a lot, I had samples with japanese green tea, and each individual bag was nitro flushed, bassaro gave free samples on it`s opening, from each product they had, but this year they cannot afford to do this, so the sample pack costs 1000 Yen, it is a lot of work when a teashop buys it`s tea already nitro packed in 100 gram packs, reopening them and sorting it in 5 gram mini nitro flushed packs would be too expencieve.
I think o-cha has only high quality tea, so you can`t go wrong trying any of them.

I just got my 4 samples from bassaro in the mail today! it still looks like they dont have an actual online shop setup right now though..

[Oni]

I like them because they were the only shop that sold the all japan tea competition winner gyokuro last year, although it was too expencieve for me to try but it was good to know that it was available, and they sold hoshino gyokuro, that is also a famous yame brand.

[iannon]

I like them because they were the only shop that sold the all japan tea competition winner gyokuro last year, although it was too expencieve for me to try but it was good to know that it was available, and they sold hoshino gyokuro, that is also a famous yame brand.

ive been drinking some hoshino from shizuokatea that ive really enjoyed as a daily gyo myself. hand picked too or so it states on the site.

[Oni]

I tried shizuokatea, and I also had hoshino from them, I thought it was also worth the price, and that excelent shincha with 50 gram nitro fulshed can was very good, but I don`t trust them because of the flavoured sencha products, if a vendor starts selling such blasphemie I avoid them, Lu Yu staited that you should not mix tea with other herbs, and pick it out of season.