TuochaTea.com

topic posted Fri, February 22, 2008 - 6:43 AM by  Rambler
Have any of you ordered from this company before? How was the quality and service?
Thanks!
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Rambler
  • Re: TuochaTea.com

    Tue, February 26, 2008 - 7:56 PM
    I ordered a lot from TuochaTea, with rather mixed results.

    I've had very good experience with four of their De Hong pu-er bricks:
    the high plateau brick was very flavourful and aromatic, with a thick rich liquor
    the gold bud brick was rich and earthy, with less of that shou sweetness, but very nice.
    The royal brick had no flavour, I just couldn't coax it into doing anything but sitting there in the cup looking brown.
    The chenxiang brick was similar tot he high plateau, but not quite as rich.

    I had a completely different experience with their bingchas (the round cakes). I got a menghai 7572 that tasted medicinal
    and bitter. I also got a 7262 that had a similar bitter taste. That was in comparison with a 7262 cake from Yunnan Sourcing that was rich and sweet and had that "menghai flavour." The 2005 Pinxiwangfu Royal bing barely showed up, though it didn't have that medicinal taste, and I would describe the 2006 Haiwan Lao Tong Zhi similarly. Their prices were a bit lower than Yunnan Sourcing for the same cakes, and personally I now will always prefer a Yunnan Sourcing cake over a TuoChaTea cake.

    The tea arrived reasonably quickly, was rather well packed, nicely labeled, with very nice bamboo leaf wrapper on the brick groups.
    • Re: TuochaTea.com

      Mon, March 3, 2008 - 11:11 PM
      It is fake Puh Erh.

      Real puh erh is the cure for damn near everything.
      • Re: TuochaTea.com

        Tue, March 4, 2008 - 12:20 AM
        i wouldn't say that, cure all's are usually bs. but i would vouch for puh-er tea lowering cholesterol, other than that it has about the same benefits as regular tea.
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          Tue, March 4, 2008 - 5:16 AM
          My acupuncture teachers....almost all of them, including my teachers teachers tell me that Qi gong and real puh erh are as close to a cure all as they have found. I am talking about tea that costs two grand a tea cake, not the stuff that they call puh erh in the states.
          • Re: TuochaTea.com

            Tue, March 4, 2008 - 3:31 PM
            Cure-all or not, I'm afraid that's a bit too rich for my blood!

            But I'm more interested in tuocha's loose leaf wild tea than their puer. I had wild tea at a local tea tasting, and that tea house is hoping to carry it for sale in the future, but at present does not. However it sounds like tuocha is worth trying as a source.

            Thanks for the info Simran!
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