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Doug Hazen, Jr.
 
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Do you know which of Silk Road's Liu An selection you have: P-LA-90,
P-LA-99, P-LAS-01?

Doug


"Lewis Perin" > wrote in message
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> I've recently been drinking some Liu An, packed by Silk Road Teas,
> from a sample a friend was good enough to send me. I've been enjoying
> enough that my curiosity's been stimulated.
>
> I've heard that this is a green tea that's been aged, but it looks
> nothing like "green" Puerhs: the leaves are very dark. But the taste
> of the batch I'm drinking from reminds me of a heavily roasted
> oolong. So I wonder: is Liu An a *roasted* aged tea? If anyone
> knows, I'm also curious if the roasting (assuming that does happen) is
> done when the tea is still young, or if it only happens later.
>
> /Lew
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