Mini Menghai Beencha 1999 - all that I expected and a promise of more. I
do
not have yet the point of reference - too many too complex things that
have
not yet sort themselves out. I feel like I opened a math text on a
subject I
have no special knowledge of.. Like topology, for example. But it is
interesting and intriguing and demands attention and work of mind.

Well said, to be sure. I love it. It's complexity enthrawled me. I'm
ordering some today. Wonder if it would be a good saver tea. That's the
impresion it gives me.

If I am right, the word "menghai" is a geographical location. The "Gold bud"
tea also has "Minghai" on its wrapper and I start to wonder if all these
westernized tea names are just "marketing names. That would be a warning for
us not to buy a tea without seeing the pic of its wrapper.
I would gladly just show you the characters here but for some reason it
seems to me that USENET chops-off some bits off UNICODE.

Old trees and Gold Bud beencha.
These have almost no dog-breath and even if they did - that dog had his
food
prepared by a gourmet chef.

What about soil, loam, peaty earth? Anything in there? Did you try a
Liu
An? Not Pu-erh per se, but Pu-erh like, and from Guangxi.

I need more time. See, my nose was broken when I was young and somehow my
sense of smell may be very sensitive in one part of the "spectra" and not so
much in another. I have trouble naming puerh scents.

But both are near-orgasmic.

Near?

Mike, I envy you