My Millennia tuocha provenance

So this is a picture of your tea? Or someone else's?

Do you have a picture of the tea itself, and not just the box?

It's a picture from the Internet. Everything is the same except for the yue. The tuocha has lots of white bud and remaining green area on top fading to dark purple on the side ( I remember one of the first ones I tried looked much more green than this). It has the embossed G character. The wrapper has two lengthy columns of different Chinese characters down each side. You will probably know but what does the field "36 ge yue" indicate?

Jim

I seem to remember reading about this on Sanzui that the ones with those dates are fake -- later date.

And I don't think they started putting the embossed G on the tuo until the last year or two.

Jing remarked the embossed G started in 2003:

This provenance with the tael(bulk) ticket and my tuos on hand suggest otherwise.

You really have to ask yourself the question who is Chinatown riped me off for a buck tuo assuming it was fake? I'm still curious about that '36 ge yue' meaning. If it means something like the 'next 36 months' I think it would be possible to pickup an embossed G tuo with the year on the bottom of the box and conclude incorrectly which year it started. At the minimum the tael ticket and the information on the box ties together.

Jim

MarshalN wrote:

Space Cowboy

Jim, this link is dead. Michael

It's a link I uploaded this morning to Tinyurl for a post Jing made in this group. I just doubled checked and it is bringing up the RFDT post. This is the ugly url:

Jim

Michael Plant wrote:

Well duh. Jing said the Te tuo was embossed in 2003. This is the Jia tuo and first embossed in 95 so it can't be an anachronism..

Jim

Space Cowboy wrote:

The timeline is actually more hazy than what Jing mentioned.

The 'Jia Ji" tuo with the old imprint stopped production in 1993, and the 'Jia Ji' tuo with the "G" imprint began in June 1996. So there was a good three years inbetween.

There are 3 types of 100gm tuos with that "G" imprint, not two. The last one is the 'Jin Si' tuo with a limited production.

Xiaguan did and does print dates of production on the bottom of their boxes, though not all of them. In the beginning they used blue print ink, then sometime after 2001 they uses laser print.

'36 months' is the 'Best Used By / Best Before' date. This is more of a formality than an actual warranty. Under China's export regulations for perishable items, it is mandatory that a warranty date be inserted. Many producers got around this regulation by putting either '12 months' or '36 months' or a time frame so that the health and food regulations officials won't get on their backs.

Danny

...for the curious use Google...

Rather than worry about the tea's supposed age.... how does it taste? How does it look?

You're not reselling your tea, so whether it is actually 15 years old or not.... doesn't really matter, does it? So long as it tastes good :)

Most puer doesn't come with a date provenance. You have to take somebody's word for it. The ticking of the clock adds more to the value than aging of the taste. You notice most discussion in this group starts with how old is the puer followed by how great it taste or the corollary it can't taste good because its not old. My puer economic advice to investors buy the cheapest recent crops and sell them in the future for more money to those who think time is more important than taste. Mine will probably go up the crematorium shute with me if it doesn't cost my estate extra but I leave that decision to the court appointed Executor.

Jim

PS This post wasn't directed at MarshalN who is entirely correct that it is more about taste than dates but I th> Space Cowboy wrote: