You'd think if you were selling the pu from 1950 for 15 grand you could come up a better hook than this:
http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=
If can buy a sample of aged puer it probably ain't. Like the cure for the common cold would it make sense to anybody?
I was going to name this thread The Pu You Can't Afford. But then there is always one in the crowd.
Jim
Read the description . . . tried to figure out who "happy friend" is . . .
so. . .if I were pregnant, the seller may negotiate the price? I could get to work and see if I can get him to sell it in my $100 USD budget . . .
http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=
Temporarily does not have the buyer to purchase this treasure!
This thread should be named Fools Rushed In... :")
...because this is not a pu'er brick, it is a red tea brick!
Lara, you still want to fork out a $100 for red tea dust?
Danny
http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=
Check out the full beauty of the brick guys:
It is considered a compressed tea, not a pu'er becuase the ingredients used is not pu'er leaves.
It is sad to see that even the vendors online do not understand the definition of that pu'er is...
Danny
I should also add that this is more of a piece of art to display on the shelve rather than actual drinking. I had a sample of it once, from the
70s, and it was still bitter like a strong cup of Qimen. Good for drinking after a hearty meal of spicy and oily food, but not quite desirable for a nice sit-down cuppa.:")
Danny
Curious exactly how such an "excellent" brick ended up in Shandong province. heh.
I concur Danny, this is a $15 decorative brick here in the US
Hence my repeated warnings about NOT buying Puerh from TaoBoa or eBay UNLESS you really know what you are doing. I would not even consider buying aged tea this way unless I had a personal relationship with the vendor.
Mike Petro
I think the website does give a rather detailed explanation to the history of this brick...Shandong is next door to Hebei province, Zhaoliqiao is in Hebei.
Anyway, if the site doesn't provide the history to the making of this brick, here it is:
The Place. Zhaoliqiao town, though it sounds like someone's name, was formerly a small vhamlet named after the bridge Zhaotianqiao. When the railroad works began in 1906, the railroad was paved through the hamlet, and the northerners named it Zhaoliqiao, and the town was placed on the map due to the railway in 1917, a part of the railroad that connects north and south of China.
There wasn't a tea factory in this town until after 1953. Not far from Zhaoliqiao town is another town called Yangloudong town, which was known for tea production, it was one of the 6 ancient towns in the city of Puqi in Hebei province, and the town believed to produce the once famous Songfeng tea (as recorded in Luyu's Chajing - the Book of Tea), it is also known as the town of Brick Teas.
After the Opium War Yangloudong town was a gathering place for the Russians, Germans, British and Japanese, who erected factories in this town. However, after the Sino-Japanese wars the town was badly damaged and in declined, and in 1953, the one and only tea factory left moved to Zhaoliqiao town where the economy was striving, and was renamed Zhaoliqiao Brick Tea Factory.
It is interesting to note that in the early days of production, the factory purchased their red tea dust from several sources, including India and Ceylon, and the Russians were the early investors in the factory, including those in the former town of Yangluodong.
Danny
I thought the price of the brick reasonable but I couldn't afford the shipping. If language and payment wasn't a problem with me I'd be ordering everyday from TaoBao and Ebay. Hundreds and hundreds of items you never see in the West for less than $10 each. I keep tabs and hope to see it someday in Chinatown like the recent Xiaguan Iron Cake which I first saw on TaoBao. While I'm here why does most puerh seem to have some English somewhere in the packaging? Why isn't everything in pure Chinese? I don't think it is just items for export or I'd see other items on TaoBao or Ebay in other languages or Chinese only which seems to be rare.
Jim
Mike Petro wrote:
overpriced. I would think that ebay would be the same. Stick with tea that you can put your hands on and have a look at if you can (taste as well), I say.
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