Hello people! I have been reading many posts on this forum for the last few days, and I think I am in the right place. I am a beginner, but have some awareness of whats out there. I am looking for some help in getting started.
I am looking for recommendations around pu-ehr and oolong. Specifically utensils, water, cups the whole shabang.
Also if you had one Shincha to buy, what would it be right now, or if there is a place with a good sampler?
Cheers,
Jeremy
Welcome!
For oolong and puerh, some specialists will talk about those teas better than I could do.
For shincha, I don't think that samplers are available.
You have a post exclusively about 2008 shincha here.
If I had to choose only one shincha, it would be Uji Kirameki, but one shincha isn't enough!
For oolong and puerh, some specialists will talk about those teas better than I could do.
For shincha, I don't think that samplers are available.
You have a post exclusively about 2008 shincha here.
If I had to choose only one shincha, it would be Uji Kirameki, but one shincha isn't enough!
Jeremy, welcome to TeaChat!
Den of Den's Tea offers 2 OZ packages of shincha. I have not tried his shincha personally, but I bought many of his other teas and loved them all. He sells top quality stuff and is well loved by tea snobs... er... connoisseurs here.
Den of Den's Tea offers 2 OZ packages of shincha. I have not tried his shincha personally, but I bought many of his other teas and loved them all. He sells top quality stuff and is well loved by tea snobs... er... connoisseurs here.
Quite expensive. For the same amount of money, you can get 100 gr from Japanese sellers.RussianSoul wrote:
Den of Den's Tea offers 2 OZ packages of shincha. I have not tried his shincha personally, but I bought many of his other teas and loved them all. He sells top quality stuff and is well loved by tea snobs... er... connoisseurs here.
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There's always the difference in shipping to consider though. Den's has rather local / cheap / free shipping for us US peeps. Japanese sellers sometimes have free shipping some don't. Like I haven't ordered from Ippodo due to the ludicrously high shipping rates. And Den's has that lovely 3 dollar sampler which gets refunded after your first purchaseolivierco wrote:Quite expensive. For the same amount of money, you can get 100 gr from Japanese sellers.RussianSoul wrote:
Den of Den's Tea offers 2 OZ packages of shincha. I have not tried his shincha personally, but I bought many of his other teas and loved them all. He sells top quality stuff and is well loved by tea snobs... er... connoisseurs here.
May 8th, '08, 11:20
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I ordered from Den's last night for the first time, and missed the 3 dollar samplers. Phooey. Where on the Den's site is it located?Pentox wrote:And Den's has that lovely 3 dollar sampler which gets refunded after your first purchase
Ah, here it is - under Green Tea Kit:
http://www.denstea.com/index.php?main_p ... &cPath=174
See, I must have tacitly assumed that "green tea kit" would involve teawares. To me, a sampler would be a "green tea sampler". {pouts}
Anyway, Jeremy, if you do buy from Den's, that's where you'll find the sampler!
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May 9th, '08, 03:04
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Guess what - I e-mailed Den's first thing after posting this message, and later today they got back to me to say that since they hadn't sent out the shipment yet, they could and would add the sampler to my order.chamekke wrote:I ordered from Den's last night for the first time, and missed the 3 dollar samplers. Phooey.Pentox wrote:And Den's has that lovely 3 dollar sampler which gets refunded after your first purchase
Yay!!!
Thanks so much for mentioning it, Pentox. I just squeaked under the wire, there
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Shincha, never heard of it.
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