Shi Feng Long Jing

[qaymar23]

Has any one tried The Shi Feng from Seven Cups? If so how was it, and has anyone tried both Postcard Tea and Seven Cups, if so which one seemed to be better quality or were they about the same? I am trying to deceide which one to order my Long Jing from and am leaning toward Postcard simply because I see no reviews on Seven Cups Long Jing. I am going to order from Hojo to get the best quality I can afford but I wanted to get a nice lower middle ground with either postcard or seven cups to compare. thanks

[Tead Off]

Has any one tried The Shi Feng from Seven Cups? If so how was it, and has anyone tried both Postcard Tea and Seven Cups, if so which one seemed to be better quality or were they about the same? I am trying to deceide which one to order my Long Jing from and am leaning toward Postcard simply because I see no reviews on Seven Cups Long Jing. I am going to order from Hojo to get the best quality I can afford but I wanted to get a nice lower middle ground with either postcard or seven cups to compare. thanks

I wouldn't describe Master Luo's LJ from Postcard as lower middle ground. Maybe you are referring to another LJ on their site. Master Luo's is high grade LJ. Whether you like it more than Hojo's will be another matter. If Postcard is out of it, try East Teas. Same tea.

[qaymar23]

I wouldn't describe Master Luo's LJ from Postcard as lower middle ground. Maybe you are referring to another LJ on their site. Master Luo's is high grade LJ. Whether you like it more than Hojo's will be another matter. If Postcard is out of it, try East Teas. Same tea.

Thank you, I thought Master Luo's Lj sounded good. I based my comment on a price range that TIM posted sometime back on this site with it showing $5.00 a gram as Superior, $1.90 a gram as middle and $1.30 as New Cultivar. With those numbers in mind and Postcard at approx. $26.00 for 20 grams that came out to $1.30 per gram, I put it at the bottom of the good scale. I appreciate your suggestions and direction to go for good quality LJ. and the smartest thing I can do at this point is to order and taste it for myself.

[gingkoseto]

The "reasonable" prices are always relative. In Long Jing, such relativity is even amplified. A farmer once showed me their receipt of selling Long Jing to Gong Pai (Tribute Brand) Long Jing Company, one of the most famous (and expensive) Long Jing sellers in China. It's a top notch tea of theirs, sold for 2000RMB per 500g to the company in the past spring. It's about $0.6 per gram. This price is for Gong Pai only and nobody else could get it at the same price. That's the level of tea Gong Pai would sell for about $1.5 per gram (pre-order price) with the most modest packaging, and much more expensive with grand packaging (because tea of such price is more of a gifting tea than family tea in China). Some large companies not based in Hangzhou would sell tea of this level for about $2-3 per gram with simplest packaging, and more expensive with "nice" packaging. All these are just commercial grade products without harvest dates specified. When companies or anybody else buy from farmers, even within the pre-Qing Ming period, prices drop every day, because the later the harvest, the larger the production.

And then, all these are only domestic market prices. International prices largely depend on sellers' operational costs and market target. So the same tea may end up with different prices.

I think, Long Jing is a crazy tea. One has to be a little crazy to drink it.

[Tead Off]

Or, drinking it makes you a little crazy.

[qaymar23]

I believe both!

[Chip]

Or, drinking it makes you a little crazy.

The obscurity and lack of transparency that becomes clearly apparent when discussing LJ drives me crazy!

Seriously, I start to tune out in frustration.

[Tead Off]

Or, drinking it makes you a little crazy.

The obscurity and lack of transparency that becomes clearly apparent when discussing LJ drives me crazy!

Seriously, I start to tune out in frustration.

Just drink more. Nothing to understand.

[Kunkali]

Has anyone tried dragon tea house's superfine version? Was it any good?