Identify these Pu-erh teas

[Wastingyouth]

I was recently given 2 teas by a friend of a friend of a friend. However he is Chinese and does not speak any English so i could not understand all the things he was telling me about them. Can anybody here identify them?





and the second tea





If it helps he said one tea is from this mountain 布朗 and the other is from this mountain 易武. I don't know the English sorry

[wyardley]

Maybe someone else who is a native speaker (or at least knows more than I do) can give you some better answers, but looks to me like they're both made by 郑四隆 (zheng si long). The big red stamp that goes vertically on the first cake looks like it says:
张家湾 (zhang jia wan), which I'd guess could be a person's name (Zhang being a common surname)? The back of the first cake says something like
郑四隆百年古树茶 (zheng si long 100 year old tree tea). the further down
云南易武正山茶叶[something] (Yunnan Yi Wu zheng shan [i.e., actually from that area] tea leaf (and then the name of the company again))

布朗 and the other is from this mountain 易武

Those would be transliterated as Bulang and Yiwu, respectively. If you search around, you can find some more information about these areas.

[pb2q]

The 1st is the Hai Lang Hao - Zhang Jia Wan, released 2009. Seems like YS was selling these for ~$70.

Half-Dipper review here

[zhi zheng]

There are 2 Zheng Si Long. One old one new. Xin Zheng Si Long is further down the mountain than Lao Zheng Si Long. Their tea is pretty much all bush tea. Lao Zheng Si Long is reliably old tree tea (Old tea trees are more or less always on the higher parts of mountains).

[Wastingyouth]

Thanks for your help. I very much appreciate it. Both teas are quite mild and with a nice sweet after taste.

[MarshalN]

Hey Zhizheng, which one's old and which one's new? I also heard that Zheng Silong is all bush tea.

[Wastingyouth]

Hi Zhi zheng, Can you tell me if these teas are from old tree or bush?

[zhi zheng]

Oops. I just looked at what I wrote before and realised I made a mistake!

There is only one Zheng Si Long! There are two Zhang Jia Wan - one old, one new. Zhang Jia Wan is a place name. Old Zhang Jia Wan (老张家湾) and Xin Zhang Jia Wan (新张家湾). The older, original village is at a higher elevation. Xin Zhang Jia Wan is lower down. This is a typical pattern because as tea farmers migrated to new mountains they would settle near the top of the mountain, so this is where the older tea trees are. As the population expands people move lower, so the trees are younger.

So, Lao Zhang Jia Wan has old tree tea, Xin Zhang Jia Wan (新张家湾) has bush tea.

The Zheng Si Long wrapper says it's old tree tea but since the stamp doesn't state 'Lao Zhang Jia Wan' it's possible that it's from Xin Zhang Jia Wan. It would be in the producers interests to state clearly if it was Old Zhang Jia Wan tea. Of course, whatever is on the wrapper, it's only by looking at the tea that you're going to be at all sure.

[jktea]

Zhe Silong is a family owned workshop in Yiwu town. I have been to Zhe Silong's family twice. This workshop was founded in 2004. To be more exact, the owner's name is not called Zhe Silong. Zhe Silong is his business name for his brand. Zhe is his family name; Si(fourth literally), because he is the fourth kid of his family; Long means booming business. So he names his brand Zhe Silong.

Zhang Jiawang is a village and tea mountain's name. It is quite correct what Zhi Zheng described on the two differences in the two mountains. But both old and new Zhang Jiawang have bush, and new one takes high percentage of the bush amount.

Zhang Jiawang's old tea trees Maocha in 2009 are nicer and more expensive, compared to other tea mountains in Yiwu, such as Mahei, Luo Shui Dong, Qian Jia Zhai.

The other tea is from Bulang tea mountains and made by Pu Yun Cha Fang(a Taobao tea vendor, and make some of its own name Pu Er tea)