I read about Arinas very ambitious project to try 214 Chinese teas on http://greenleavesredberries.com/tea-marathon/. She found the teas in the book 品茶 图鉴 (Tea Tasting Handbook) which contains quite a lot of green teas from major tea producers (industries) which are located in lesser-known tea producing provinces like Shandong, Chongqing and Guizhou. As far as I know, many of these teas are not available in the shops I usually buy my tea from (Dragon Tea House, Jing Tea Shop, TeaSpring and Yunnan Sourcing) and I was wondering if anyone knows a good tea stores were I can find these unusual teas.
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Re: Buy rare Chinese green teas
Wow that's a nice project! She lives in Beijing and can get access to more teas. 
I agree it's nice and exciting to have a long list of teas to explore Many of the teas are hard to get even in China. And there are at least another few thousand teas that are not recorded by tea books. So it's a life long journey
It's actually a little controversial to include company brand-name products in tea books, because most teas are produced by farmers, not companies. And in China there is hardly any dominant tea producers. But as far as I see (I got this book at the end of last year), the brand name teas included in this book (about a dozen of them) are all new designs and re-inventions of teas, which makes it less controversial.
I agree it's nice and exciting to have a long list of teas to explore Many of the teas are hard to get even in China. And there are at least another few thousand teas that are not recorded by tea books. So it's a life long journey It's actually a little controversial to include company brand-name products in tea books, because most teas are produced by farmers, not companies. And in China there is hardly any dominant tea producers. But as far as I see (I got this book at the end of last year), the brand name teas included in this book (about a dozen of them) are all new designs and re-inventions of teas, which makes it less controversial.