2kg box of Menghai Imperial grade gong ting 1980's.
No astringency, just clean pu-erh taste, nothing complex.

- gong ting
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1999 5gm mini tuo, inexpensive and very drinkable, Zhongcha.
Taken from a box with chinese characters and marked with the year 2010 (but tea does not taste 2010)....Little astringency, drinkable inexpensive clean tea, more complex flavours than the gong ting.

- 5gm mini tuo
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Earlier this week, had dinner at a private club in a Hutong house at Wangfujing, was served puerh, and it was simply sublime, definitely gong ting, sweet, no astringency, herbal. Similar to a batch of tea that I purchased in very small quantity at Ole' Beijing's Financial district.