Stale Flavor Puerh

[AllanK]

I have seen "stale flavor puerh", generally ripe tea advertised. I am curious what it is and what it tastes like in comparison to more traditional tasting ripe puerh?

[Exempt]

Sounds like a translation issue to me.

[miig]

stale flavor doesn't really sound like a tea I'd be too eager to try anyways

[AllanK]

stale flavor doesn't really sound like a tea I'd be too eager to try anyways

Exactly why I have not bought it!

[chrl42]

sounds like a low-quality. Sounds like to me that low-quality stale flavor can be worse than low-quality strong flavor since they don't possess any hope of development over time

[Jspigs]

Perhaps "stale" is a mistranslation of "old?" Or perhaps "aged?"

[AllanK]

Perhaps "stale" is a mistranslation of "old?" Or perhaps "aged?"

That is a possibility. It is a mistranslation of something.

[daidokorocha]

Do you ever see any original text around from where this translation comes from?

[AllanK]

Do you ever see any original text around from where this translation comes from?

It wouldn't matter if I did, I don't read Chinese. Besides, they were EBay items and Amazon items, all in English. It could be that the Chinese mistranslated it and its good, its more likely to be terrible. I may eventually buy one and find out it means nothing but probably not.

[daidokorocha]

Ah, I see. Thanks. I was just curious to see for myself.