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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? |
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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.
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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 > --- > Lew Perin / > http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html |
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