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Oni · 2nd Degree Black Belt Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 194

To avoid plagiary I saw this article at adagio`s forum and there were a few brilliant ideeas, there were compared o-cha`s gyokuro yume no ukihashi, kame giru shi, hibiki`s super premium and maiko`s yamashitas takumi gyokuro, and finaly the shizuokatea.com gyokuro hoshino that was by far the cheapest in bulk packagin only 19$/100grams, and still handpicked (for me handpicked equals to quality, machine picked gyokuro is dusty and bad quality), by the way o-cha and hibiki`s tea were almost at the same price 55$-64$, but o-cha charged for shipping (If o-cha would grant free shipping above a price limit I would be most satisfied), the results were that o-cha and hibiki were at the same quality and yamashita`s gyokuro was the best but for 100$ (calculating shipping), was out of the question for average, daily tea.
The question was wether hibiki`s premium gyokuro was better than shizuokatea`s hoshino gyokuro, so I`ve ordered hoshino and I still got some hibiki gyokuro premium, but that is not hand picked and it is dusty, if hoshino is hand picked than the debate will be solved for daily gyokuro.

Oni · 2nd Degree Black Belt Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 194

I might add o-cha`s gyokuro shiun, for 29$ if it is much better than hoshino and hibiki premium, than it`s in the comparison.

Kevangogh · Forum God Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 904 Location: Japan

Anyone looking for a "daily gyokuro" would be amiss if they didn't consider Uji Karigane Gyokuro "Asa-Giri", probably the most overlooked "sleeper" green tea we sell.

Oni · 2nd Degree Black Belt Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 194

Karigane is a diffrent category of tea for me, I thought of leaf only gyokuro`s