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Author: TokyoBTokyoB Date: Mar 25, 2008 14:17
Hello.
Has anyone ordered from J-Tea?
http://www.jteainternational.com/
Their teas look/sound good but some of them are rather expensive and I
haven't heard of anyone in this forum ordering from them. (This is
not an ad! I've read the other posts on that topic.) Does anyone know
anything about the competitions in Taiwan and the various tiers? Are
these really indicators of quality? (They do seem to be indicators of
price!). Does anyone know if there are so many competitions that
"winning" is basically meaningless? or are there relatively few
competitions and it means something to someone at least?
Thanks
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Date: Mar 25, 2008 20:09
On 2008-03-25, TokyoB gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone ordered from J-Tea?
> http://www.jteainternational.com/
>
> Their teas look/sound good but some of them are rather expensive and I
> haven't heard of anyone in this forum ordering from them. (This is
> not an ad! I've read the other posts on that topic.)
They seem to have some of their facts mixed up (like saying that rou gui
is "from An Xi in Fu Jian in the Wu Yi mountain area"* -- and is that
picture showing a rolled tea?? --, and categorizing Tie Guan Yins
separately from either green or roasted oolongs). It's odd that they say
the best oolong harvests in Taiwan are winter and spring - I thought
that for most teas which are harvested more than once a year, fall and
spring were considered the best harvests for almost any type of tea in
either mainland China or Taiwan.
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Author: Dominic T.Dominic T. Date: Mar 26, 2008 12:06
On Mar 25, 5:17 pm, TokyoB gmail.com> wrote:> Hello.
> Has anyone ordered from J-Tea?http://www.jteainternational.com/
>
> Their teas look/sound good but some of them are rather expensive and I
> haven't heard of anyone in this forum ordering from them. (This is
> not an ad! I've read the other posts on that topic.) Does anyone know
> anything about the competitions in Taiwan and the various tiers? Are
> these really indicators of quality? (They do seem to be indicators of
> price!). Does anyone know if there are so many competitions that
> "winning" is basically meaningless? or are there relatively few
> competitions and it means something to someone at least?
> Thanks
I'm not sold at all. I looked into the site and while the intention
may be good it just falls flat big time. Best of luck to him, and if
it scratches a particular itch for you then go for it... otherwise
much better tea at much better prices can be found.
- Dominic
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Date: Aug 30, 2008 10:51
> I am curious to see a tea shop like this in Eugene -- I have a friend
> who lives there, so when I visit, I'll try to scope it out in person.
I visited Josh at his retail shop in Eugene this week. Even though
Eugene is a small town, he has a good business going there with people
stopping in to chat, have a cup of tea, buy tea leaf, etc. Maybe it's
all the hippies, maybe it's the water, or maybe it's the cold / rainy
weather, but the Pacific NW seems to be a good region for tea.
I managed to out myself as one of the people who posted in this thread
much more quickly after I showed up at the shop than I intended to.
In any event, I will say that Josh is a pretty enthusiastic person who
clearly knows about tea, and I had a good time drinking tea with him
across two afternoons, though I ended up very tea-drunk both days. We
tried some stuff that I brought to share, as well as a number of his
teas. He has a good selection of roasted and aged teas, which is unusual
for someone who focuses so heavily on Taiwanese teas.
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Author: Space CowboySpace Cowboy Date: Sep 2, 2008 06:23
Thanks for the follow up. I like brick and mortar reports. My local
tea shoppe unloaded its GaoShans because the owner likes the taste of
the Nantous better. I got my share. Oh I wished I could order from
the .TW sites. Now I know someone there so I'll save the Urls as a
point of reference when I start begging get me some.
Jim
Will Yardley wrote:
>> I am curious to see a tea shop like this in Eugene -- I have a friend
>> who lives there, so when I visit, I'll try to scope it out in person.
...flashback...
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Author: tocitoci Date: Sep 2, 2008 07:33
On Sep 2, 8:23 am, Space Cowboy ix.netcom.com> wrote:> Thanks for the follow up. I like brick and mortar reports. My local
> tea shoppe unloaded its GaoShans because the owner likes the taste of
> the Nantous better. I got my share. Oh I wished I could order from
> the .TW sites. Now I know someone there so I'll save the Urls as a
> point of reference when I start begging get me some.
>
> Jim
>
> Will Yardley wrote:
>
>>> I am curious to see a tea shop like this in Eugene -- I have a friend
>>> who lives there, so when I visit, I'll try to scope it out in person.
>
> ...flashback...
Wait a second- you can discard one tea just because you like another
tea better? Toci
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Author: Space CowboySpace Cowboy Date: Sep 3, 2008 05:26
The owner is replacing his unknown gaoshans with the known ones. The
market place demands it. In the good ole days you could drink a cup
of Formosa oolong and be satisfied which still serves me well in this
case.
Jim
toci wrote:
> On Sep 2, 8:23?am, Space Cowboy ix.netcom.com> wrote:>> Thanks for the follow up. ?I like brick and mortar reports. ?My local
>> tea shoppe unloaded its GaoShans because the...
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Author: joel.anselm.dietzjoel.anselm.dietz Date: Sep 3, 2008 09:02
This reminds me of a project I've had on the backburner for awhile and
wish to solicit advice on. When not traveling around East Asia (and
now Germany) I work as a web developer. I have long considered
putting something together for interested parties to rate and share
opinions on favorite tea sources.
I know quite a few people who follow this list maintain tea blogs, and
I wondered if there was interest in posting tea related reviews into a
central site that could be easily sortable. For instance, one could
easily look at all of the reviews for teas from Houde or Teaspring, or
see every vendor who sells Dong Ding.
Last fall I put together a more or less complete design schema, but
realized that because of the lack of standardization, it would be near
impossible to create a completely open system that also had a
qualitative element. That is, because is almost no way (that I know
of) to separate between different quality of Dahongpao teas, one's
ability to sort would suffer significantly. Most likely, the mass
producing vendors would win out over the smaller quality operations.
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Author: Dominic T.Dominic T. Date: Sep 3, 2008 12:23
On Sep 3, 12:02 pm, joel.anselm.di...@ gmail.com wrote: > This reminds me of a project I've had on the backburner for awhile and
> wish to solicit advice on. When not traveling around East Asia (and
> now Germany) I work as a web developer. I have long considered
> putting something together for interested parties to rate and share
> opinions on favorite tea sources.
>
> I know quite a few people who follow this list maintain tea blogs, and
> I wondered if there was interest in posting tea related reviews into a
> central site that could be easily sortable. For instance, one could
> easily look at all of the reviews for teas from Houde or Teaspring, or
> see every vendor who sells Dong Ding.
>
> Last fall I put together a more or less complete design schema, but
> realized that because of the lack of standardization, it would be near
> impossible to create a completely open system that also had a
> qualitative element. That is, because is almost no way (that I know
> of) to separate between different quality of Dahongpao teas, one's
> ability to sort would suffer significantly. Most likely, the mass
> producing vendors would win out over the smaller quality operations. ...
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Author: Space CowboySpace Cowboy Date: Sep 5, 2008 05:21
I dont think one tea site can be all things to the tea community at
large. I use Google quite a bit to fill in the blank questions about
tea. If I really need to know something I ask here.
Jim
joel.anselm.di...@ gmail.com wrote: > This reminds me of a project I've had on the backburner for awhile and
> wish to solicit advice on. When not traveling around East Asia (and
> now Germany) I work as a web developer. I have long considered
> putting something together for interested parties to rate and share
> opinions on favorite tea sources.
...the best websites are the ones they say couldnt work...
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