It’s a workability thing. Which means it probably does alter the interactions with tea, but I don’t know that this has been noted anywhere.Baiyun wrote: ↑Mon Jan 23, 2023 9:42 pmI suppose such clay stash age claims will matter if the clay factory builds on reputation of a previous generation and their clay expertise, like is the case here.
I mostly take clay aging to benefit how easy it is to work with the clay, as well as increased firing resilience, is there supposedly more to it (say six months versus 5 year aged clay) in terms of tea interaction?
20+ year zhuni clay is still modern zhuni, regardless of named source. It’s generally a good clay. I understand why the seller hypes it up but they shouldn’t need to.
What matters is how well your teapot makes tea. There are Qing Dynasty teapots of famous clays that make god awful tea and modern teapots of unknown clays that make exceptional tea. The age, maker, and pedigree of your clay has little to do with how good the tea will be from a given teapot.