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Author: Iggy
Date: Sep 3, 2008 09:53

A quick question to those out there more familiar with Yunnan greens
and raw pu-erhs:

A year ago we ordered by mail a bunch of teas from Yunnan through
tuochatea.com. Among those teas were a couple of large boxes of snow
dragon, a very light green tea formed into little 1-inch corkscrews.
In taste it reminded me of a bilochun, very mild and sweet with little
brewed color. It also became astringent easily so it had to be brewed
with cool temperatures for short steeps.

It wasn't one of our favorite teas so we moved on to others and only
recently did I find one of the boxes and decided to give it a try. I
was sure after a year of sitting in a plain cardboard box (the
packaging it came in) it would be stale and tasteless, but I was
surprised to find that it now tastes very much like a nice raw pu-
erh. It has more depth of flavor and character, a darker liquor, and
is similar to some high-grade old-tree sheng pu-erh leaves we picked
up this year.
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Re: Snow Dragon and other Yunnan greens         


Author: Dominic T.
Date: Sep 3, 2008 14:25

On Sep 3, 12:53 pm, Iggy gmail.com> wrote:
> A quick question to those out there more familiar with Yunnan greens
> and raw pu-erhs:
>
> A year ago we ordered by mail a bunch of teas from Yunnan through
> tuochatea.com.  Among those teas were a couple of large boxes of snow
> dragon, a very light green tea formed into little 1-inch corkscrews.
> In taste it reminded me of a bilochun, very mild and sweet with little
> brewed color.  It also became astringent easily so it had to be brewed
> with cool temperatures for short steeps.
>
> It wasn't one of our favorite teas so we moved on to others and only
> recently did I find one of the boxes and decided to give it a try.  I
> was sure after a year of sitting in a plain cardboard box (the
> packaging it came in) it would be stale and tasteless, but I was
> surprised to find that it now tastes very much like a nice raw pu-
> erh.  It has more depth of flavor and character, a darker liquor, and
> is similar to some high-grade old-tree sheng pu-erh leaves we picked
> up this year.
> ...
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Re: Snow Dragon and other Yunnan greens         


Author: Space Cowboy
Date: Sep 4, 2008 05:56

The base of the Himalayas in Yunnan is the source for the mother of
all teas. India had the same variety at the base of their Himalayas
in Assam. I think any tea from Yunnan would have be of the antique
variety. I think Black Gold has some vague similarities to Shu. As
you get farther away things change according to Darwin. I drink a lot
of green tea from China that I think taste similar. I find Assam more
similar to Chinese Hongs than not.

Jim

PS With proper storage I dont expect tea to change taste over time.
I have some approaching 40 years that still make a good cup.

Iggy wrote:
> A quick question to those out there more familiar with Yunnan greens
> and raw pu-erhs:
>
> A year ago we ordered by mail a bunch of teas from Yunnan through
> tuochatea.com. Among those...
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