I did a little figuring just for comparison...that's around $38.00 US for
100 grams. For comparison (and I'm not saying the teas are the same, since I
don't know that) Holy Mountain has a "1st grade Gyokuro" for $22 for a
quarter pound (very roughly 115 grams) and Gray and Seddon has a variety of
different gyokuros ranging anywhere from around $25 for 100 grams to $90 for
100 grams. Sooo....I guess the price spread as always depends on how fine
the tea is in the end and most of all how rare. Personally I wouldn't
necessarily balk at getting tea for $60 a 100 grams as long as I didn't have
to buy ten times that much at once...it changes the perspective I'd also
need to trust the company I was buying it from pretty strongly since I
wouldn't be able to test what I was getting as it were, unless they offered
smaller sample sizes. No affiliation with any of the vendors and no
experience with any of them pro or con, as a note...

Melinda