not sure. It was sold as zini, maybe its mixed zini and hongni.steanze wrote: ↑Thu Nov 29, 2018 4:09 pmTrusar you are making a lot of very confident statements, but I have the impression that you are not very experienced on teaware yet. May I ask you for how long you have used Yixing teapots and Chaozhou teapots?
I agree with you that it is a good idea to test for yourself the claims people make. I think it is a good idea to do that also for Mei Leaf's claims. Perhaps you might want to try 5-10 yixing pots and 5-10 CZ pots before making generalizations. I will make a couple of brief observations:
1) the pot you call "zini" looks more like hongni to me. Maybe it's just the lighting of the picture. Here are a couple of examples of zini, one from late Qing:
and two from Yixing Factory 1:
2) coarser texture does not always mean more porosity. For example, this teapot (Qing zini):
is not more porous than this teapot (modern Qinghuini):
It is possible that there are CZ pots now that are less porous than some Yixings. That can depend both on the material they are made of, and on the temperature at which they are fired. But saying that CZ in general is less porous than Yixing is incorrect.
With respect to how reliable Mei Leaf is, he seems like a nice guy but I don't have the impression that he is very experienced about teaware either...
It was very muting to start with, i doubt yixing hongni is that muting
( i really dont think anything can be, but when i get other pots ill confirm)
But i have a yixing hongni from EOT on its way so i will be able to tell at that time.
Like i said, im not the one generalising (the only one) i just accept and agree with don (from my observation after purchasing from scott from yunnan sourcing), who believes that CZ hongni is less porous, if this is the case not sure if i would want to spend money on 5 pots, they may not affect the tea at all like the one i have now ( appart from bai mu dan).
check out mei leaf youtube channel.
The only guys that sell CZ hongni have the smooth ones which yunnan sourcing and mei leaf sell. unless you show me otherwise.