Alex . com6/19/05


> Actually my experience with Dai Nationality Bamboo Tea was very contrasting.
> I bought this tea twice from David Hoffman (Silk Road) and first time it was
> fabulous. Two months later I bough quite a chunk of it (2 kilos I think) and
> it was nothing like the first one. The first one I would recommend to
> anyone, the second sits in my puer teabox almost untouched.
>
> Sasha.
>
>
> > wrote in message
> oups.com...
>> Hello again all. I know Mike Petro has said he enjoys the Dai
>> Nationality Bamboo Puerh. I've had a kind of bamboo tea before, and
>> liked it a lot. So, Mike, or, for that matter, could anyone point me in
>> the direction of this tea. I've seen a couple of selections online, but
>> I'd like to get one that someone has tried and could recomend.


Which leads me to a question. Received wisdom is to open up your wrapped
pu'erh and expose it to air, still in its paper wrap presumably. Would
leaving the Pu'erh in its shrink wrap or metal casing harm it per se, or
merely severely retard the aging process?

Mike and others?

Michael