My first purchase from ' Zen Tea Life '.

Introducing my new large water kettle to the flame.

Today I received my first purchase from this company of a stovetop Japanese kettle.This is a great kettle, gorgeous and smooth and BIG with a capacity for 60 oz! Not for Gungfu, but for everything else where a delicate pour isn't required, or the electric has gone out, (again!?) and you need some hot water for any reason. The cost in USD was under $30. This is a Canadian company, you can go see for yourselves the wonderful assortment of offers they have at www.zentealife.com
Wonderful communication, and when the seller saw my blog added they would put in some samples.
Some samples? How about thirteen?

Thirteen well packaged large samples of such variety as I have never seen before. I am astounded and very, very grateful. Here is what they sent, those tea-angels...
1. Vanilla, black flavored
2. Keemun Finest
3.Keemun finest
4. Vanilla Almond, rooibos
5. Darjeeling, Margaret's Hope, second flush, organic
6. Assam Mangalam, second flush, organic
7. Darjeeling Avongrove
8. Fragrant Bud, yellow
9. Curled Dragon Silver Tip
10. Gyokuro Uji Superior
11. Sencha, Coconut
12. Genmaicha
13. Sencha Superior Uji

And why did they send so many samples? I must go back through my emails as to quote them, for these are true tea folk. They said, "It is our honor to introduce you to some of our teas"! Charming, well-intentioned and generous, what else can you ask for in a seller of teas? Many posts to follow with the teas I fall in love with. The Japanese teas will wait until the first cold snap, as that is when the Gyokuros, Sencha, and Genmaichas will be appreciated by my palette the most. Also today I received my eight samples sizes of difernt sorts of Puerh's from Hidden Peaks Teahouse, more on that soon. Very soon.

A veritable bounty of samples from www.zentealife.com