On Mar 30, 8:08*am, Lewis Perin wrote:
Kevo writes:
On Mar 29, 10:06*am, cha bing wrote:
Is there such a thing as pu-er that is too old?

[...1920s tea isn't necessarily too old...]

On the other hand, one cannot ignore the quality & production
process of the pu-er - a low quality maocha & poor production
process pu-er made in the recent years might not even last a decade.

This sounds reasonable, but I wonder how much is really known about
how a Pu'er's characteristics at birth influence its quality decades
later. *Is there a way to know what some of the great old teas were
like as maocha? *Were they "quality tea" by standards we would
recognize?

/Lew
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Lew Perin /

Hi Lew,

How we determine boils down 2 how much we know about the specific type
of tea, isn't it?

& you raised 1 important question:

By what standards do you recognize make a good pu-er?

Kevo