I am suppose to reopen my online store when I had returned from my USA trip last month. I will need a little bit more time.
I want to tinker with my product offerings. Let me elaborate. You would agree that the prices of tea had gone up significantly, especially after the 3 years of covid. Many goods and services, beside tea, had seen their prices gone up. My regular local chicken rice or beef noddle meals had increased by more than 25% and I find that my overall monthly expenses had gone up. I can imagine as a Chinese tea drinker as myself, ordering and buying tea can burn a little hole in your wallet.
This is what I plan to do in my online store. I will like to give my buyers a more exciting, informative and hopefully a happy and inexpensive experience in my store. I am thinking of offering tea that you can compare say within a brand, or a vintage year or comparing tea being store in different regions ( Malaysia, Hong Kong or Guangzhou storage). You need not buy entire cakes of pu erh but I will offer you an economic option of purchasing in say 50g or 100g. This meant say you want to try a 2009 Dayi 7542 and a 2009 Dayi 8582, I will be selling as a set of 50g of each tea. Like wise you can also try selection of old pu erh storage from Hong Kong vs Malaysia in 50g packs. This would allow you to appreciate the many varieties of pu erh as well as the results of storage from different regions.
We can also have a tasting discussion online where we can have a live chat or even a group video face to face discussion where we can exchange our views or even disagree whether there is a sweet aftertaste in the tea.
I hope this inclusion of 'study' tea packs will provide you a wider appreciation of the Chinese tea without hurting yuur wallet.
So stay tune while I tinker and consider the tea that I will offer as 'study 'packs. If you have suggestions what you like to see in my store, let me know. Thank you.
2 comments:
Hi Wilson
I've seen that various vendors have niw gone this direction, offering puer in 50/100g lots. Fair enough....but it's a little sad. Its really something to have a big chunk of great (or just ok) tea. Over potentially several years, you get to know the tea , refining your brewing skills (which are different for each cake) and noticing how the tea cake changes and evolves with time. Buying samples you miss out on that. We can't really say we "know " a tea after only a few brews. It's just the modern world I guess. People prefer transitory experiences over real knowledge.
Regards
thanks Peter for your feedback. I agree with you 100%. I will continue to sell whole pu erh cakes. The study sets are simply for the Chinese tea enthusiast who wants to study a set of aged tea, storage or region. I am not selling single pack but specific sets with a specific characteristic. They can also choose to buy whole cakes cakes after enjoying the study sets. Thanks again. Wilson
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