Michael where did you get this stuff? It sounds good. I am not much
of a wuyi drinker either but I love that gravel taste.

Karsten I find that tea keeps for a really long time in those
vacuum-sealed bags. Two weeks ago I was digging around in my tea
closet and found one that claimed to contain Si Ji Chun (Taiwanese
oolong). The bag was in complex characters too - clearly Taiwanese.
Now the last time I went to Taiwan was two summers ago, but that was
for work and I didn't do any tea shopping, and furthermore I have no
memory of owning this stuff, so I must have bought it the last time I
*lived* in Taiwan, which was in the summer of 2000! I opened it and
it's amazing - honestly, it's better than most of the stuff I have now,
that I spend zillions of dollars on getting from internet vendors.
Incredible focused flavors. And, at the time I didn't know jack about
tea, I just bought what I liked. So I'm also wondering what's going on
with storage and why this particular tea really seemed to thrive in the
six years it spent in a dark, airless environment.

wrote:
> Thanks for your input Michael.
>
> > [Michael]
> > In fact, all WuYi > teas seem to like a bit of age, even if it's just a few
> > months after arrival.
>
> Strange isn´t it. A few weeks ago I discovered a long forgotten stash
> of mainland Oolongs in my cellar. They´ve been kept airtight in
> aluminum-foil bags but didn´t survive it. 3 years and they´re dead.
> One TGY from the WuYi area [chinese marketing gag ?] I kept in a box
> upstairs for around 2 years tastes as good as "fresh".
> I´d really like to know if there are any special processing techniques
> behind this ?!?!
> Time to get back to China, sniff ...
>
> Karsten [just gongfuing some of that TGY, shhllrp ...]