Guangxi pu'er?
 

My friend gave me this bing (round cake) of shu pu that was made in
Wuzhou, Guangxi his hometown. The factory's name Guangxi Wuzhou Tea
Factory, and it has a symbol in the center of the cake of three Cranes
with the Hanzi that means the same under it. It is wrapped in plastic
and has an attached note on the back claiming it's from the 1980s but
we know how far that goes...


Another interesting aspect of the tea is that the note says it's "liu
bao" tea (meaning it's from liu bao county in Guangxi)...I'm not sure
if it's some sort of special tea or just the local name for this pu.
On the top part of the cake it reads "Guangxi Liu Bao Bing Tea"

The note in Chinese reads (as roughly translated):

"It's produced in Guangxi, Cangwu Liu Bao county...this type of tea has
a 200 year history...it has a scent of binglang (a kind of
fruit...translates to 'betel nut'?)...the older the better...it's
features: the color of the tea is red, strong, pure, old...liu bao tea
is used to curing some kinds of diseases (liji which means Dysentery),
helps improve eyesight, and helps your body get rid of impurities in
your blood...in the market, there isn't much of this tea...the tea was
made in the 1980s...it is from Wuzhou Tea Factory."

Valuable? Common? Rubbish? What do you think?

Mydnight wrote:
snip
> "It's produced in Guangxi, Cangwu Liu Bao county...this type of tea
has
> a 200 year history...it has a scent of binglang (a kind of
> fruit...translates to 'betel nut'?)...the older the better...it's
> features: the color of the tea is red, strong, pure, old...liu bao
tea
> is used to curing some kinds of diseases (liji which means
Dysentery),
> helps improve eyesight, and helps your body get rid of impurities in
> your blood...in the market, there isn't much of this tea...the tea
was
> made in the 1980s...it is from Wuzhou Tea Factory."
>
> Valuable? Common? Rubbish? What do you think?

Strange, I thought I replied to this from home.

Anyway I too have some of this, see
http://www.pu-erh.net/graphics/Stash/DSCN0578.JPG

It is quite tasty but not exactly a puer. My cakes are shaped like a
hockey puck rather than the traditional tuocha birds nest shape. They
are very good. The only thing I dont like about them is that they are
made from chopped leaf rather than whole leaves, the only reason I dont
like it is because it is too easy to hide things in chopped leaf. They
are well worth having but I would not pay a premium for them.

As for 1980s well you know how that goes.....

Mike

Indeed, but if it's valuable, I'd like to keep it wrapped up.

My LiuAn comes in 500g baskets wrapped by bamboo leaf. One basket is
loose leaf. The other slightly compressed but flakes easily. The
loose basket is expensive $25 the compressed cheap $6. The taste I
describe as mild shu with strong notes of sheng. My notes say LiuAn is
a single fermentation and puerh a double. Fermentation will produce
gas as a byproduct and oxidation can't.

Jim

>Indeed, but if it's valuable, I'd like to keep it wrapped up.

If it is true 80s then it is of value, but not of the same crazieness
that Puer brings because Liu Bao is not as well known.

Mike

LiuAn is the fermented tea specialty of southern Guangxi province. I'm
not talking about Lu-An Gua Pian. So far it seems LiuAn is the loose
leaf version and LiuBao the compressed. Maybe not.

Jim

Lewis Perin wrote:
> "Space Cowboy" > writes:
>
> > My LiuAn comes in 500g baskets wrapped by bamboo leaf. One basket
is
> > loose leaf. The other slightly compressed but flakes easily. The
> > loose basket is expensive $25 the compressed cheap $6. The taste I
> > describe as mild shu with strong notes of sheng. My notes say
LiuAn is
> > a single fermentation and puerh a double. Fermentation will
produce
> > gas as a byproduct and oxidation can't.
>
> Liu An isn't Liu Bao.
>
> /Lew
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