Hi tea fans!

After having good luck with my first venture into pu-erh teas with the
inexpensive "Lucky" brand Yunnan Tuocha, I ventured to Wing Hop Fung in
Monterey Park, CA to try some other pu-erh teas. I've found Wing Hop
Fung to be a rather good retailer of Chinese products, and the store is
well-regarded by the local Chinese community. Thus I figured it was a
safe place to go.

I bought two teas, one packaged in a box labeled "Yunnan Tribute Tea"
and another whose brand was in chinese but featured a rooster on its
paper wrapper. They cost about USD $6/cake.

The Yunnan Tribute Tea featured a different pressed symbol on each
side. This same tea can be found by googling "Yunnan Tribute Tea", for
sale by Tenren (for a much higher price than I paid!). I tried the cake
tonight and found the first two brewings (done gongfu style) to border
on rancid. The smell of the brick hinted at this before I brewed it,
but I tried it anyway. Subsequent brewings were just ok. The cake
seemed very dark--I figured it was cooked rather than raw and aged,
especially considering the price. I'm wondering if this is an example
of wet storage pu-erh? It had a clear red liquor, but smelled like
pesticides.

The Rooster tea smelled much better, but was also very rancid in taste.
Its liquor was yellow-green and cloudy, and the flavor reminded me of a
poorly stored or low grade pouchong, maybe even kudingcha! I thought
perhaps it was just a very young cake, considering it would have been
produced this year or for release this year, but the cake was brown, so
I didn't think it could be that young. The leaves were present on the
outside, but inside the tea was like mush. I wish I could find this
particular cake online for reference, but this is all the info I have
on it.

I was wondering if others on this board had similar experiences with
either of these teas, or if they enjoyed them. I don't know if these
are just examples of bad pu-erh or if my palate hasn't quite graduated
to finer pu-erh sensibilities.

Anyway, all replies appreciated.