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1/12/06

> Oh yes, I forgot to add, the 50/60s samples of red label - the zhao qi hong
> yin - do not have plum taste (? - you meant taste, not fragrance, right?).
> The fragrance is distinctively floral and ?orchidy?, the tea, by comparison
> to those from the later date, is sweeter, perhaps that's where you discern
> the plum note?

Your question leads me to go out and have another go at all my samples:
Goody, another old Pu'erh orgy ahead.
>
> But technically, Almond / Plum / Date fragrances and tastes are mostly (and
> majority) the products of hydro-thermal fermentation process.

WHAT! Say, it ain't so, Danny. These flavors figure in the 1950 together
with camphor, leather, lots of other complexities. Back to the tearoom.

Donations graciously accepted.

Michael