Is this one of you guys? 2011 Gu Shu fun

[Drax]

Are one of you guys just pulling my leg....?

http://instagram.com/p/ww44hQOw5g/

[shah82]

Read enough threads on puerh, and you get used to it.

It's normal, Dave.

(Drax is not Dave, just a pop in from Hal3k in my head for generic person)

[TwoDog2]

Read enough threads on puerh, and you get used to it.

It's normal, Dave.

Or come to China. You'll get a lot of indignant:

THIS ISN'T _(INSERT TEA NAME HERE)_ TEA

[puyuan]

Read enough threads on puerh, and you get used to it.

It's normal, Dave.

Or come to China. You'll get a lot of indignant:

THIS ISN'T _(INSERT TEA NAME HERE)_ TEA

Oh, do I know this.

But I think Drax met the "Hi, care to try this random tea I have here, it this will just cost you a billion dollars" type of crazy.

[shah82]

Fun thing is...I've had a sample of this tea as well.

And yeah. It's a bulang shu, with no possibility of ever tasting like even aged oolongs--got that barnyard funk that Bulang tend to have in shu.

It's just amazing just how much people being wrong will argue with you. They'd tell you your kid's name is Sayyed, and you be like..."I'm not Middle Eastern or South Asian...why would you thi--oh never mind..."

[Drax]

I guess I've been mostly protected from interacting with the craziness of the internet until now... I typically protect my social media outlets, but I thought for the Instagram one that I would keep it open and public.

I've been enjoying the people who want to "direct message" me, and then the others who are clearly all running businesses (I really enjoyed the person who's account is nothing but pictures of wads of cash... really now).

But this particular person at least has pictures of tea on his account... I guess it's actually been a long time since I've run into this particular type of crazy person...

[Drax]

And yeah. It's a bulang shu, with no possibility of ever tasting like even aged oolongs--got that barnyard funk that Bulang tend to have in shu.

Exactly...!! That's why I thought maybe somebody was just making a joke, but... no.....

[drinking_teas]

aged oolong can taste like puerh - specifically aged Dancong.

[bonescwa]

Aged bao zhong tastes like aged puerh

[AdmiralKelvinator]

Agreed, I've also had a number of aged oolongs that at first blanch taste like traditionally stored puerh. Mostly just a similar "wet leaf" mustiness, and in the case of oolong tells me it wasn't very carefully stored.

[drinking_teas]

Agreed, I've also had a number of aged oolongs that at first blanch taste like traditionally stored puerh. Mostly just a similar "wet leaf" mustiness, and in the case of oolong tells me it wasn't very carefully stored.

With aged Dancong it's not really a storage issue it seems - it's just the character of the tea. Many other people have reported on Aged Dancong's similar profile to aged puerh.

[AdmiralKelvinator]

Agreed, I've also had a number of aged oolongs that at first blanch taste like traditionally stored puerh. Mostly just a similar "wet leaf" mustiness, and in the case of oolong tells me it wasn't very carefully stored.

With aged Dancong it's not really a storage issue it seems - it's just the character of the tea. Many other people have reported on Aged Dancong's similar profile to aged puerh.

Very interesting, the only aged Dancong I have has a totally unique profile from pu-erh and indeed other aged oolongs, with a kind of "nutty" finish and no trace of wetness or mustiness at all.

Kinda OT but are there any online retailers offering Aged Dancong that you know of?

[drinking_teas]

Agreed, I've also had a number of aged oolongs that at first blanch taste like traditionally stored puerh. Mostly just a similar "wet leaf" mustiness, and in the case of oolong tells me it wasn't very carefully stored.

With aged Dancong it's not really a storage issue it seems - it's just the character of the tea. Many other people have reported on Aged Dancong's similar profile to aged puerh.

Very interesting, the only aged Dancong I have has a totally unique profile from pu-erh and indeed other aged oolongs, with a kind of "nutty" finish and no trace of wetness or mustiness at all.

Kinda OT but are there any online retailers offering Aged Dancong that you know of?

The one I tried was from Camellia Sinensis - camellia-sinensis.com/en/tea/aged/feng-huang-wudong-1980

A better bet would be Tea Habitat, who specializes in Dancong.

[wyardley]

Agreed, I've also had a number of aged oolongs that at first blanch taste like traditionally stored puerh. Mostly just a similar "wet leaf" mustiness, and in the case of oolong tells me it wasn't very carefully stored.

With aged Dancong it's not really a storage issue it seems - it's just the character of the tea. Many other people have reported on Aged Dancong's similar profile to aged puerh.

I disagree - I think it's very much related to how the tea was stored, as with most aged oolongs. Of course, the degree of oxidation / roast, and whether or not it's re-roasted at all will also affect the taste. Generally, most Phoenix oolongs I've had (and I've had quite a few) are a low or moderate roast, and low to medium-high oxidation.

If stored in a very dry and sealed environment, dancong will continue to retain a lot of the same flavor profile. My belief is that the more medicinal or pu'er tasting aged oolongs (whether baozhong, dancong, wuyi yancha) will tend to have had some period of more humid or more exposed storage. Some people (myself included) do really like the sour tastes that can develop in that case.

I have heard of people storing dancong in a paper bag or similar for the first 10 years, and then going to a sealed container after that.