Phoenix brand toucha

Phoenix brand toucha was a popular puerh toucha in the old days until the company went bust. A famous puerh tea author described how to differentiate between old and not so old phoenis toucha by looking at the eye-lids of the phoenix on the wrappers. It is said the toucha with wrapper that showed a Phoenix with double eye-lids is older than the one that showed a phoenix with single eye-lids. The company was later restructured and the production of the phoenix toucha was resumed.

Here are some old phoenix toucha in their original packaging.

Old phoenix toucha