> 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.
>
> Is this normal for a Yunnan green, or was the snow dragon incorrectly
> labeled as a green and is really a variety of loose-leaf sheng pu-
> erh? Is it a quality of the tea varietal grown in Yunnan, or
> contamination from pu-erh processing in the same factory?
>
> -Charles