Extra-old puerh trees offerings

It should be noted that he is out of stock of these regardless of their actual age.

Opening up a can of worms here!

The probability that he had tea from 1600 year old trees is probably equal to your probability of winning Powerball, two drawings in a row.

Perhaps they were planted by Jesus as Rob said. God only knows.

Anything over 800 year old trees I question and even that is incredibly rare.

More information from Verdant Tea, for those of the community interested into >1000 years old trees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgCE93xHjnM

There was an old thread about Verdant, I think it was called Transparency in the Tea Industry. It did a pretty good job a debunking Verdant’s claims. These teas from Verdant are just too cheap to be genuine. You can’t get tea from such old trees for such a low price. The mao cha would sell for probably five to six times what they are selling a cake for, at least.

I actually bought the “800 year old” cake from Verdant, not because of the claimed age which I do not believe, but because I wanted to try it. And I love it – already left a review here on it.

The 1300 year old tree tea is described as single tree sheng. In my understanding a single old tree like that will produce enough tea for maybe 500g or so of tea. So unless his single tree is actually multiple trees he should only have a handful of 100g cakes available.

**unless it’s being picked by Master Zhou…

I hear Master Zhou has a deep understanding of the Banach-Tarski theorem.

And he sells that 1300 year old tree sheng for $49. What’s wrong with it that he would let it go so cheaply. Only if he knows it isn’t really 1300 year old tree tea would he sell it on the cheap. On the other hand, if that tea is really plantation material he is charging a lot of money for 100g of sheng.

lol

I’m not sure if 500 years old qualifies as old trees in this thread. Thanks for posting, though!

You have high standards! Thanks for starting the thread :)

And if you want Numi tea it can be had for the cheap on Amazon. Didn’t know they were making age claims too.

Tea Urchin has a good reputation but those teas seem too cheap to me. 500 year old tea trees do exist so it is theoretically possible but the price gives me doubts.

My thoughts exactly Allan.

It should be noted both of these cakes are from a separate entity. This means they are not “Tea Urchin” brand, so he TU is just acting as a sort of middle man. I like to think of these situations as like a game of “telephone”.

That makes sense Haveteawilltravel. I hadn’t thought of it that way in this case, although it is pretty normal practice. Respect to vendors who admit clearly that they are just “playing telephone” when describing such products.

Worth trying, indeed.

Heh

I wish there was a like button for your “Heh” comment.

is this what they mean by “rock tea”

Yes, actual phoenix mountain, if you lucky you get actual phoenix feather & get extra reincarnation for free

Love this. Nice, light humor for a contentious topic.

If anyone can be trusted with correctly identifying their age, it’s Scott. And even he has said multiple times how easy it is to get swindled in this industry.