Thursday TeaDay 2/17/11 What's new?

[msurads06]

Pu otti is definately new. Iv been drinking young sheng for almost a year, but this is my first experience with anything aged. So far iv only tried one sample from the otti and wasnt impressed couldnt seem to get past the taste of mud. Hopefully i will have time to try out another sample tomorrow.

rishi sencha superior today.

[karmaplace]

http://www.etsy.com/transaction/43566378

The pictures for the first one really don't do the colors justice--it's very intense. The interior, especially, is an intense reflective golden color, which I had not expected. The artist is Mitsuko Siegrist, or 'ippuku' on Etsy--I think her work is pretty amazing.

I have your chawan's sister! I bought the "Footprints in the Snow" from her, and had my eye on "Snowflakes." You're right, the pictures don't do the colors justice on her pieces.
http://www.etsy.com/transaction/42600172

I'll have to post my own photos up later.

[debunix]

New....hm.....a few new teas I still haven't opened, a few additional pieces of teaware, but those are mostly replacements/supplements for things I already have. So not much really different and new.

Today, finished off the Yamakai Shizuoka sencha from Norbu, and then moved on to a lovely thermos full of SeaDyke TKY. Very nice teaDay.

[Nenugal]

Some new teaware, pictures coming soon
And matcha in my wan this morning.

[hopeofdawn]

http://www.etsy.com/transaction/43566378

The pictures for the first one really don't do the colors justice--it's very intense. The interior, especially, is an intense reflective golden color, which I had not expected. The artist is Mitsuko Siegrist, or 'ippuku' on Etsy--I think her work is pretty amazing.

I have your chawan's sister! I bought the "Footprints in the Snow" from her, and had my eye on "Snowflakes." You're right, the pictures don't do the colors justice on her pieces.
http://www.etsy.com/transaction/42600172

I'll have to post my own photos up later.

Ooo, I had been looking at that one too, but you snapped it up before I could even think about pulling out my pocketbook. I suppose I should thank you for saving me from myself! Congrats--it is definitely a gorgeous piece, and I'd love to see pictures of it in better light ...

[debunix]

Ok, something new: a random sencha from my chinatown tea shop, Wing Hop Fung. Since it appeared to be in the same kind of packaging as the senchas I got from Yuuki-cha--not a cheap clear plastic letting light in to damage the tea--I tried a pouch of it.


by debunix, on Flickr


by debunix, on Flickr

tasty enough....full review later in green tea topic, gotta get to work now