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I'm interested in this due to the color and price. This will be part of my second order from puerhshop.com and I'm still a pu'erh n00b, so I wanted to get some educated opinions before I placed an order. I thoroughly enjoyed the previous suggestions I got here. I did a search and didn't get any results pertaining to this tea. The description sounds very intriguing!
thanks!

If you were to ask me to rattle off the names of some famous tea factories, Dynasty Tea Garden wouldn't be the first to come to mind.

I agree with Tom and Tony, sheng is something you can stray away from the bigger companies more, but with shu and the way it is processed... well I just wouldn't trust some random factory. When your talking shu pu, I say stick with the factories that know how to do it and have been perfecting it since its beginning.

Definitely a little pricey on a per-gram basis. That's sort of why I'm eyeballing it. I see it as an opportunity to sample some "high end" stuff, and have enough around to enjoy for a while.

:edit after subsequent replies:
ah. I did not know that this particular factory isn't one of the more established producers. I will be taking that into consideration.

zipflint wrote:Definitely a little pricey on a per-gram basis. That's sort of why I'm eyeballing it. I see it as an opportunity to sample some "high end" stuff, and have enough around to enjoy for a while.

Please keep in mind that "high end" does not equal higher price all the time. In fact, a lot of pu heads around here are more your "bargain" shopper, looking for those really good items that arent really all that expensive.

PolyhymnianMuse wrote:Please keep in mind that "high end" does not equal higher price all the time. In fact, a lot of pu heads around here are more your "bargain" shopper, looking for those really good items that arent really all that expensive.

Any good shu on that category?

Indeed! Been doing some more reading and have found some other items to replace this one, unless someone chimes in with a glowing review.

In the world of Pu, high prices DO NOT mean high quality. Pick up a cake of the 2005 Tongqing, its very good and only $14 for 357g.

You can get a reasonably priced one from Puerh Shop for under $20- the Menghai 7572.

I see they're sold out of the very nice Changtai banna tuo, but you may want to try the very nice Nanjian phoenix tuo- a whopping $2.99 for a very nice tuo of shu.

tony shlongini wrote:you may want to try the very nice Nanjian phoenix tuo- a whopping $2.99 for a very nice tuo of shu.

Are these nice, I haven't tried them yet? A good price, after doing the math an qual ammount of it in a cake would cost $10.6.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I really appreciate 'em!

shogun89 wrote:

tony shlongini wrote:you may want to try the very nice Nanjian phoenix tuo- a whopping $2.99 for a very nice tuo of shu.

Are these nice, I haven't tried them yet? A good price, after doing the math an qual ammount of it in a cake would cost $10.6.

They're not bad at all, and hard to beat the price. It's hard to find $3 samples, let alone a 100g tuo.

If I had my choice you can't really go wrong with XiaGuan Xiao Fa or under its better known name the XiaGuan Tuocha For Export.