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Old 15-04-2008, 07:44 PM posted to rec.food.drink.tea
Lewis Perin
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Default Interesting Pu-erh article in the IHT

TokyoB writes:

Thought this was interesting:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/...tea.php?page=2

I'm sure some of the claims are true but to what extent? The claims
are 1) too much pesticides used on pu-erh 2) much pu-erh is claimed to
be from ancient trees but isn't


Of course the trees are ancient! If you look closely at the picture,
you'll see that the waist-high trees in those neat rows are *bonsai*.
It takes 500 years to grow a tree that way. No wonder the leaves are
so expensive. I, for one, feel privileged to buy them.

/Lew, ducking
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