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Those zhuni pots are beautiful! Is it a faux pas to ask approximately how much pots like this cost? ZAG is the only place I know of that seems to have comparable pots but I'm too nervous to email for a price.

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Wed Feb 10, 2021 11:39 am

mafoofan Did you ever have any luck finding a Zhuni artist, or pot to your liking?

I'm also curious about this, or whether anyone has bought one of Pan Jun's HLS zhuni pots from YZG.

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Really enjoying this thread. I don't know why, but I have some kind of false nostalgia for these teas and their packaging. Even with a significant collection of good tea at home, I'll stand there staring in the grocery store tea aisle, hoping for a treasure I know isn't actually there. On tonight's ...

I've been doing this for the last few months in a Yama glass kettle, mostly with aged sheng puerh or various heicha. I brew the teas my usual way (repeated infusions of varying lengths) throughout the day, then fill the kettle a fourth of the way up with cold water and dump the spent leaves in. If i...

I love these big pots and the 70s zini. Drinking more and more heicha lately, I've been thinking of trying to find a bigger 70s zini pot for this same idea! Makes workday tea much easier.

Jumping on the bandwagon, I'm also drinking the 2008 Taste of HK, boiled in a glass kettle after steeping throughout the day yesterday. Judging by how quickly I'm going through them, this and the 2008 Jiang Cheng brick, also from Yee On, are some of my all-time favorite workday puerhs. They're smoot...

Another Xu Jin Choi pot, ~100 ml and also purchased in Yingge. :) Like Baisao 's pot, it's ultra thin and very precisely made, with a bell-like, metallic ring. It's wheel thrown, of course, and though the clay superficially resembles zhuni, it reminds me more of Tokoname clay than Yixing. (Though, t...

Balthazar , thanks for your response. I've been drinking more samples and am pretty enamored with some of them. I'm still getting used to the various styles and their characteristics, but have experienced all of the minerality, white tea fruitiness, and smoke you mentioned. Toward the top of the li...

Other than shou puerh (usually not a fan) and some limited Liu Bao and Liu An experience, I haven't had much heicha before. But I thought it was cool this thread has been so active and decided to give it a try! After a month stuck in Shanghai, an order of random samples from Yunnan Sourcing has arri...

Cold, sunny morning working by my south-facing window.

I have one of the YZG DCQ pots made by Shen Ye Qin. I've been using it with early 2000s sheng and am very happy with it; the tea is smooth, full, and sweet every time. It's almost effortless. Others here know more than me but I'm very satisfied with my experience. I haven't used a Yinchen DCQ pot, s...

Thank you, @Bok, @DailyTX, and @OCTO! I appreciate the advice. Looking forward to getting to know this pot. It's humbling to think about its unlikely journey to the Pacific Northwest.

Beyond very slowly warming them up, are there any special precautions you guys are taking using a LQER pot for the first time? (A few weeks ago I posted that I'd buy one in a few years and bought one a few days after that instead. )

2010 Haiwan sheng mini brick from Jay at Tea Life HK. I think this is the most heavily compressed tea I've ever had, or at least up there on the list. This is inexpensive tea but I find it enjoyable. The color is nice, that semi-aged orange in spite of both the age and the compression. There is a ki...