Friday TeaDay 10/8/10 Ka-ching, cheaper or more expensive?

[entropyembrace]

Ok third bowl of matcha now

at least I won´t have to worry about my matcha going stale!

[Chip]

Likely about the same. Most tea I buy is in the 18-30 USD range per 100 grams. Nice thing about Japanese tea, you really do not have to spend oodles of moolah to get a very good tea! Matcha and gyo can ruin the tea budget, fortunately I purchase ostly sencha.

However the strong yen has likely increased the prices.

Great TD ... sencha sencha and sencha. First up was a tasting of a new sencha for possible OTTI. SweeTea gave it the nod of approval while Lili and Shincha had not a clue. Next Sencha Premier from Adagio and finally some dribs and drabs sencha that was mild but excellent.

[nickE]

My tea orders are getting much more expensive these days. Now that I've spent time developing my palate I feel that it's no longer a waste to try really expensive teas.

Forgot the name, but had a chinese green from Rishi brewed grandpa style.

[rhondabee]

I think in reality my purchases are about the same, but I am striving to buy less expensive teas, since what I started out with was pretty expensive. Just too expensive to sustain my daily tea drinking habit. So I am searching for less expensive alternatives for every day, but trying to stay with high quality tea.