On Apr 12, 4:26*pm, wrote:
For instance, is there a particular Chinese brand that is good or bad?
And which is best approach to fermentation? My goals are improved
health, since this tea has been shown to lower cholesterol, and
flavor.

Hi,

here are few sellers selling pu-erh

HouDeAsianArt - http://www.houdeasianart.com/ - the seller (Guang)
lives in Texas. His prices are higher, but his teas are top quality,
too. He is very very honest

Yunnan Sourcing - http://stores.ebay.com/Yunnan-Sourcing-LLC - Scott
is an american living in Kunming, China and selling pu-erh and other
teas. Very trustatble, too. His prices are lower than Guangs but the
shipping costs are higher, since he is sending the teas from China.

Dragon Tea House - http://stores.ebay.com/Dragon-Tea-House - this
vendor, Gordon, lives in China.

Jing Teashop - http://www.jingteashop.com/ - another trustable vendor

Also, you can chceck many blogs that review pu-erh like

http://tuochatea.blogspot.com - This blog is mine :-)
http://half-dipper.blogspot.com - English gentleman Hobbes writes
about tea

and certainly there is a pu-erh tea community http://community.livejournal.com/puerh_tea/

Tomas