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Old 28-04-2008, 08:14 AM posted to rec.food.drink.tea
Balt
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Default Is this real tea?

On Apr 27, 10:45*pm, "Gyorgy Sajo" wrote:
Hi,
I have brewed and tasted the tea and I have my serious doubts. It does not
taste and smell like tea at all - has almost no taste and has a weak and
unpleasant sweet smell - and the wet buds definitely do not look like
Camelia Chinensis. I am wondering what it could be, and I hope that some of
the more experienced readers of this group could tell me.


Hi György (are you Hungarian? :-)

the cake looks to be of pure buds (tea-rügy) like this one
http://cgi.ebay.com/2007-Silver-Bud-...QQcmdZViewItem

The very young tea leaves are probably less powerful then more grown
leaves. Unlike pu-erh, this cake will also not age well.


Tomas

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