Can you show me a picture of the wrapper? This is interesting.


"Alex Chaihorsky" > wrote in message
.. .
> Guys,
>
> I bought several puerhs from Silk Road. One of them was Gold Bud. But then
I
> read the wrapper and there were no mentioning of anything even remotely
> resemblin "gold" or "bud". So I asked Dave. Dave told me that sometime the
> wrappers have no connection with puerhs because a small factory buys
> wrappers from somebody else, etc. I asked him is there any connection
> between the tea and the name and his answer was not very categorical. So,
I
> guess we have to understand that buying the puerh with the name "X" in one
> catalog may not be teh one with teh same name "X" that we liked from
another
> catalog.
> I also looked an the wrapper of " Mini Menhai Beengcha 1999" that was
> discussed many time here. Surprise, surprise - I did not find the
"Menghai"
> on the wrapper (Menghai actually is a county in Yunnan). What it does have
> is "Yunnan 7-stack beencha" and words like "Old trees, famous name, large
> leaf, arbor tree" I have not identified the manifacturer but there is a
> name of Yunnan tealeaf export-import company. But no mention of Menghai.
> I am a bit lost here. Shouldn't a tea called "Menghai" in a catalog have
at
> least the word "Menghai" on its wrapper? Why dave named it Menghai? Thius
> is an excellent tea, I love it, no complaints, but should't there be a
> system in naming teas?
>
> Sasha.
>
>
>
>