The poem, "High Fragrant of Autumn Puerh Tea, the Golden Fruitful Product From Autumn",
is a good description of Autumn Tea picked between the beginning of the 24-solar-term “Beginning of Autumn (立秋)” and “White Dews (白露)” after the rainy season in September.  
Therefore, autumn tea is also called "Guhua (谷花)”.  
The first harvested autumn tea is called "Guhua Jian" (Buds of Autumn Tea).  This naming method is similar to the way of naming "Chun Jian (春尖)" (Buds of Spring Tea).
 

 

The tea aroma is plentiful, thick and little sweet with a slightly smoky smell.  When you have a cup of the 2008 Autumn Flavor, you will find the tea broth thick although there is still a little bit bitterness currently.  The overall taste is very plentiful and rich in texture with the slightly smoky smell, which is the special aroma from the autumn tea.  The slightly delightful smoky aroma in the tea broth reflects its attractiveness of the Autumn Flavor.  After drinking of such, you can tell how rich and thick the tea broth is. Cloud expects that when the 2008 Autumn Flavor continues to age, it will become a tea full of transformations and turn into a well aged Puerh tea.  It is worth collecting.

 

Cloud is of the view that 2008 was a special year for Puerh Tea because there are a lot of renounced teas from this year.  This phenomenon is similar to the situation that tea connoisseurs always focus on 1999 famous teas because they are very good in quality.  It is the same that the taste of 2008 Puerh teas are good and amazing, generally speaking.

“Storage” of Puerh tea always confuses novices.  Warehouse means the place for storing stuff or stocks.  However, the Dry Storage, Natural Storage and Wet Storage of Puerh tea are not referring to the storage conditions of the warehouse.  In fact, Dry, Natural and Wet Storage are the terms for describing the storage status (i.e. ageing condition) of the tea cake itself.  In other words, these 3 terms are referring to the degree of wetness of a tea cake.  If a tea cake is affected by high humidity, we will describe it as “Wet Storage”.  If a tea cake is affected by low humidity, we will describe it as “Dry Storage”.

• Health functions of Puerh tea

Because of the price collapse of new Puerh tea after speculation in 2007, this resulted in over-supplying and dramatical price drop of 2008 raw tea leaves materials.  However, this was good to the quality, which was generally great in 2008, due to the large reduction of demands so that less tea leaves were picked.  As a result, this caused the price of 2008 tea leaves materials dropping to an extremely low price.  Besides, the low demand also gave room for tea trees to rest and grow great tea leaves which accumulated abundant and plentiful contents and substances for the future great taste.

 

Cloud must emphasize that it was due to the double effects of special historical and economic reasons (i.e.  the price collapse of new tea speculation in 2007 and the financial tsunami in 2008), that was the reason why those 2008 tea cakes were seriously low in price for many years.  However, it does not mean that the quality of 2008 Puerh tea is poor.  Cloud would like to advise that tea lovers should not judge the 2008 tea quality based upon the  price only.  Instead, tea connoisseurs and investors should actively discover the treasure tea from those 2008 tea products, which are actually aged with high quality but just selling at the low price.