With all due respect, there is no such thing as raw pu erh. My family
is in the tea plantation business for four generations. I have worked
in our plantation for over 20 years. May be you are refering to green
pu erh. It's colour looks like green tea. But that is the biggest
misconception of tea outside China. Many, many decades ago some
influential tea merchants who did not fully understand tea were telling
people of the world the main difference between green tea, oolong tea,
black tea, and white tea. Now every book, and every website uses the
same definition--the major difference is in the fermentation of the tea
leaves. However, this definition is extremely over simplified,
misleading and mostly incorrect. The major difference between the
different teas are that they all comes from different tea plants. Teas
like apples, peaches and pears have many, many different varities. Some
varities are perfect for green teas, while others are great for white
teas, and still others are ideal for red teas (mostly refer to as black
teas in the West). This white tea varities will never be used to make
green teas and vice versa. Even in the green tea family there are
countless sub-varities. This is only true in China, and Taiwan. India
is now growing green tea, and white tea, but their altered varities
work differently, and can never be as superior as the thousands of
green teas in China.

For people who are truely interested in the finest teas in the world,
they should visit China many famous tea garden (plantations) the next
time they are in the country. Most plantations welcome foreigners for
visits.

I do agree that zheng shan xiao zhong (lapsang souchong) is a good tea
if people could find it at a fine tea merchant--it is not an easy tea
to locate in North America. And the Koo Loo tea is very nice. It has a
floral aroma. But again this tea is not catagorized as green. In its
purest classification, this is a fully-fermented red tea; however, in
the West, red tea is consider black tea. In North America, for the
sake of simplication, yellow teas, and red teas do not exist at the
current time.

In most case, you seem very knowledgeable about tea. It took me many
decades to truely understand the nuances, and I was literally borned in
a tea plantation in Fujian.

Greg