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Famous Tea: 1996 Zhenchunya Hao
The 1995/96/97 Zhenchunya Hao are a series of famous cakes made by Lv Lizhen (from Taiwan) in collaboration with former Yiwu village head Zhang Yi. They were made in the midst of a several decade run of pu’erh factory dominance and were created as a callback to the Haoji era predating WWII, where brands (SPH,…
I think Jakub Tomek was more interested in factory teas than you give him credit for, albeit, some of those…
Usually it is referring to oxidation before the tea was pressed which is generally not considered good. It makes some…
May have only changed a bit since then given the storage.
I think you make a very real point about the bitterness. My counter argument would be that the base of…
This also brought back memories of people talking about deciding to buy expensive boutique tea then, and anticipate that it…