Dragon Well

[Cyphre]

For everyday consumption of Longjing I also get some from Holy Mountain. I know it's not the best but it is pretty good for the price. Although i haven't bought from them since I found teaspring.

[bagua7]

Has anyone tried the LJ available at teaspring? Any good?

[Proinsias]

Not tried it this year but, yes, generally it's pretty good for the price.

[bagua7]

If you had to compare Teaspring with Jing Tea Shop, which one would you pick first?

I am about to place an order but would like to hear your opinions before doing anything.

[teaskeptic]

Has anyone tried the LJ available at teaspring? Any good?

I have already given my opinion in this thread, but I will repeat that teaspring's 2010 Emperor LJ was very disappointing for me.

I have not tried Jing's.

[britt]

I haven't tried Teaspring's, but I have been very happy with the Weng Jia Shan LJ from Jing Tea Shop. Both the 2009 and 2010 were the best LJ I've been able to find so far, although my experience with LJ is quite limited at this point in time.

[Oni]

I am in a quest to try out all the green teas that are on the 10 most famous chinese teas list, there are 6 of those, from all the reputable vendors, I already tried out the 3 from Anhui province, those were Tai Ping Hou Kui, Lu An Gua Pian, Huan Shan Mao Feng.
I planned to try a lot of Bi luo Chun and Long Jing, and Xin Yang Mao Jian, this year, but sofar I cannot afford it, because of the increadibly high price of Dragon Well, all the top grades are out of my regular buget.
P.S. I tried many lower grade examples of LJ and BLC, but I am planning the highest grades, from Teaspring, Jingteashop, Hojotea, these are my most trusted vendors for chinese mainland greens.

[Tead Off]

I am in a quest to try out all the green teas that are on the 10 most famous chinese teas list, there are 6 of those, from all the reputable vendors, I already tried out the 3 from Anhui province, those were Tai Ping Hou Kui, Lu An Gua Pian, Huan Shan Mao Feng.
I planned to try a lot of Bi luo Chun and Long Jing, and Xin Yang Mao Jian, this year, but sofar I cannot afford it, because of the increadibly high price of Dragon Well, all the top grades are out of my regular buget.
P.S. I tried many lower grade examples of LJ and BLC, but I am planning the highest grades, from Teaspring, Jingteashop, Hojotea, these are my most trusted vendors for chinese mainland greens.

You might want to try Postcard Tea in London. Master Luo's LJ is better than most and you can read the story on their blog. Not cheap, but, good LJ isn't. All the money you save by not buying the run of the mill will add up to buying a top grade tea.

[Oni]

Is that teashop really as great as it sounds, are all those tea really so high quality and handmade by masters?

[TIM]

I will try the tea gallery as a comparison also. Their 2010 Suzhou Bilochun its Exceptional!

http://theteagallery.blogspot.com/2010/ ... eview.html

[Proinsias]

Is that teashop really as great as it sounds, are all those tea really so high quality and handmade by masters?

Did you read the Cha Dao article a while back?
http://chadao.blogspot.com/2009/05/post ... ondon.html

They're certainly on my list the next time I head down to London

[Oni]

I will try the tea gallery as a comparison also. Their 2010 Suzhou Bilochun its Exceptional!

http://theteagallery.blogspot.com/2010/ ... eview.html

I would like to but they do not ship to my country, they only ship to the US and Canada, I live in eastern Europe, fortunately Teahabitat and Houde ships to my country.

[Tead Off]

I will try the tea gallery as a comparison also. Their 2010 Suzhou Bilochun its Exceptional!

http://theteagallery.blogspot.com/2010/ ... eview.html

I would like to but they do not ship to my country, they only ship to the US and Canada, I live in eastern Europe, fortunately Teahabitat and Houde ships to my country.

Hard to believe. They shipped to Thailand. Royal Mail goes everywhere. Did you actually ask them? The owner's name is Tim.

Edit: Are you talking about Tea Gallery or Postcard?

[Tead Off]

Is that teashop really as great as it sounds, are all those tea really so high quality and handmade by masters?

Did you read the Cha Dao article a while back?
http://chadao.blogspot.com/2009/05/post ... ondon.html

They're certainly on my list the next time I head down to London

The teas I've tried from (East Teas is affiliated with them) them were definitely a cut above. So are the prices. The good thing is you can buy 20g bags to try and see what a handmade and often naturally grown tea tastes like. I bought the Mi Lan dancong, Emperor Jiaqing Tribute dancong, Rou Gui, Luo's LJ, and their Korean ujeon and sejak teas. I didn't know that the Korean greens were from 2009. I wouldn't have bought them had I known as fresh is best and there is no dating on their website. In spite of that, the sejak is very good but for the prices, I want fresh. I have brought this up with them and let's see if they take listing the date of production to heart.

The rest of the teas I bought were excellent. The dancong are exceptional. The LJ was the 2nd best I've had this season. The 1st was a Shi Feng in Hong Kong, even more expensive. This is becoming a rich person's game.

[Oni]

I will try the tea gallery as a comparison also. Their 2010 Suzhou Bilochun its Exceptional!

http://theteagallery.blogspot.com/2010/ ... eview.html

I would like to but they do not ship to my country, they only ship to the US and Canada, I live in eastern Europe, fortunately Teahabitat and Houde ships to my country.

Hard to believe. They shipped to Thailand. Royal Mail goes everywhere. Did you actually ask them? The owner's name is Tim.

Edit: Are you talking about Tea Gallery or Postcard?

http://www.theteagallery.com/ , at the checkout there are 2 options, either the US or Canada.

Reagarding postcardteas, if it is really that good there is the same problem with them as with Hojotea, it is just too expencieve, compared to teaspring and jingteashop, where you can get a really good tea for 40 $/100 grams or less, at these high end teashops you need to pay at least 75$/100 grams, at least double, so first I need to get rich somehow.

I recently ordered 300 grams of handpicked Taiwanese high mountain oolong from Houde for 85$, I know those teas last me long (more than a month, almost 2) and are sure to give me satisfaction, because they are the top grade that this shop sells and it is a good bang for my buck, but if I were to pay the same cash for 100 grams of green tea, even if it is as good as it gets, it is still one type of tea and I would finish it much faster than those oolongs.