I'm becoming increasingly enamored with this tea and the only thing
that kind of bothers me is having to buy it in small 3g packets, I'd
like to buy some of this tea in a normal quantity... but I can't find
another vendor other than Teaspring and it also seems like it is just
made by this one manufacturer. I find this all really strange and I've
never seen such a thing before where a tea is virtually non-existent
outside of one vendor and one manufacturer.

- Dominic

I dont know of anybody else fermenting LJ. Ill point this out to my
local Chinese tea shoppe who dont believe they ferment Liuan Gua
Pian. They claim it would be a waste of a premium tea. I said we are
not Chinese and since both are delicate maybe a good choice to
guarantee it around in the future. I think if a tea shoppe doesnt
offer an exclusive tea like Teavana six summits or Taylors of
Harrogate south african ntingwe kwazulu black tea theyre just selling
what is available as wholesale. I keep an eye out in the boutiques
for exclusive teas. I just noticed SevenCups has videos of their
recent China tea tour where they purchase their teas. Not exclusive
but I appreciate my purple bamboo a lot more. I just wished they
would drop the tea master thing. Just because you know something I
dont doesnt make you a master. You are an engineer or doctor by
training. People simply choose other paths.

Jim

On Oct 17, 7:24 pm, "Dominic T." > wrote:
> I'm becoming increasingly enamored with this tea and the only thing
> that kind of bothers me is having to buy it in small 3g packets, I'd
> like to buy some of this tea in a normal quantity... but I can't find
> another vendor other than Teaspring and it also seems like it is just
> made by this one manufacturer. I find this all really strange and I've
> never seen such a thing before where a tea is virtually non-existent
> outside of one vendor and one manufacturer.
>
> - Dominic

On Oct 19, 6:01*pm, Space Cowboy > wrote:
> I dont know of anybody else fermenting LJ. *Ill point this out to my
> local Chinese tea shoppe who dont believe they ferment Liuan Gua
> Pian. *They claim it would be a waste of a premium tea. *I said we are
> not Chinese and since both are delicate maybe a good choice to
> guarantee it around in the future. *I think if a tea shoppe doesnt
> offer an exclusive tea like Teavana six summits or Taylors of
> Harrogate south african ntingwe kwazulu black tea theyre just selling
> what is available as wholesale. *I keep an eye out in the boutiques
> for exclusive teas. *I just noticed SevenCups has videos of their
> recent China tea tour where they purchase their teas. *Not exclusive
> but I appreciate my purple bamboo a lot more. *I just wished they
> would drop the tea master thing. *Just because you know something I
> dont doesnt make you a master. *You are an engineer or doctor by
> training. *People simply choose other paths.
>
> Jim
>
> On Oct 17, 7:24 pm, "Dominic T." > wrote:
>
>
>
> > I'm becoming increasingly enamored with this tea and the only thing
> > that kind of bothers me is having to buy it in small 3g packets, I'd
> > like to buy some of this tea in a normal quantity... but I can't find
> > another vendor other than Teaspring and it also seems like it is just
> > made by this one manufacturer. I find this all really strange and I've
> > never seen such a thing before where a tea is virtually non-existent
> > outside of one vendor and one manufacturer.
>
> > - Dominic- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

try www.theteahouse.com - they carry some good ones!!