What bamboo tea are we talking about? The one in the tubes roasted
over a fire to absorb the flavor of the bamboo or the smoked tuocha
that comes in a dried bamboo shell for storage or the pu that comes
wrapped by green bamboo leaf which dries out giving it's flavor?

Jim

Michael Plant wrote:
> Alex . com6/19/05
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> > 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