Golden Sail Yunnan Tuocha?

I happened across a tuo the other day in a hexagonal red and yellow box
with a gold sticker seal and picked it up for a couple bucks (I think
$4). I'm not expecting it to be anything earthshatteringly amazing, but
if anyone here knows anything about it I'd appreciate the info. There
isn't much online that I can find. Yunnan Sourcing sells a bing made by
the company but that is all i've really seen.

- Dominic

I just checked TaoBao. No additional information from anybody just
basically Golden Sail Brand is a product of the CNNP GuangDong export
company. A 2 year old sheng 100g tuocha was 35y or 4 bucks and loose
change.

Jim

Dominic T. wrote:
> I happened across a tuo the other day in a hexagonal red and yellow box
> with a gold sticker seal and picked it up for a couple bucks (I think
> $4). I'm not expecting it to be anything earthshatteringly amazing, but
> if anyone here knows anything about it I'd appreciate the info. There
> isn't much online that I can find. Yunnan Sourcing sells a bing made by
> the company but that is all i've really seen.
>
> - Dominic

Space Cowboy wrote:
> I just checked TaoBao. No additional information from anybody just
> basically Golden Sail Brand is a product of the CNNP GuangDong export
> company. A 2 year old sheng 100g tuocha was 35y or 4 bucks and loose
> change.
>
> Jim

Thanks, that's more than I dug up. That sounds exactly like what I have
here, the guy said it was "a few" years old. I have not opened the seal
on it yet to peer inside, but there are no dates on the outside just a
bit of Chinese (the only symbol I know is the last that says "cha") and
the number "S 305." Should it be decent? Or should I expect very basic
quality?

- Dominic

Mike Petro wrote:
> In my experience, most "Golden Sail" brand is generic cooked puerh,
> nothing exotic. They are not bad at all though especially if aged
> about 7 years. The one thing about many of their bings is that they
> are often shrink wrapped which keeps them from breathing well, so the
> yeast-like fermentation flavors/aromas are still strong, so they
> benefit from a good airing out for a couple weeks after opening the
> shrink wrap.

Thanks Mike,

Since the info was pretty low on this, I kinda figured it was nothing
special... but at $4 I'm not too worried. I was wondering about that
shrink wrap, which it does have on it. I think I'll unwrap it but leave
it in the box for a few years and check it out then. I figure if it is
2-3 years now it won't be much of a wait. I'm not much for the cooked
puerh's so holding off shouldn't be tough.

Good info and knowledgable as always, it's much appreciated. OK now for
one quick question, I want to buy a bing of the best uncooked I can buy
(within some reason) if you had to pick one what would it be? I've now
tried a number of uncooked pu's but I'm actually starting to move away
from puerh and back to greens and oolongs more and more lately. I still
enjoy puerh (cooked and uncooked) every now and then but not as
enthusiastically as a few months back... so I'd like to check out a
top-notch pu to either make or break puerh's place in my cupboard.

- Dominic
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