The front of the brick:
And the back:
Thanks in advance!
Friday, July 20, 2012
Tea Brick Identification Help: 2008 Sheng Pu-erh?
One of my friends was moving and giving away a bunch of stuff, and gave me a brick of compressed tea. Can anyone help me with identifying it? I see the characters for Sheng Pu-erh tea (生普洱茶), and I see 2008, so I assume this is some 2008 Sheng Pu-erh. If anyone could verify this and provide me with any other interesting or useful info, I'd be very grateful:
The front of the brick:
And the back:
Thanks in advance!
The front of the brick:
And the back:
Thanks in advance!
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If you look next to the weight (250 grams) you see the characters for shou cha - ripe tea. I often find that the label will not tell you whether your tea is Sheng or Shou, you just need to look at the leaves. That's usually easier with a Bing when you can just unwrap then rewrap. It becomes more difficult with the Zhuan being wrapped like this. I think they started to put the characters on the package since they stopped using recipe codes for the most part, which used to be enough info to determine what your tea was. As for the factory, I'm still doing research on that front but I think it's Menghai (the middle characters say Tan Chun Hai or cloud spring sea)
ReplyDeleteThanks! From a small tear that I see in the edge of the package, and from the smell, it seems more like shou or ripe tea, which is a bit of a disappiontment as I find there are fewer ripe teas that I am a huge fan of (although I have had a few that I've liked a lot).
DeleteHi AZ. It's definitely shu/shou (熟) puer (It says it on the front too). The official name of the brick is 野生 (Yesheng) meaning "wild," Puer tea. The bottom says: 勐海县 (menghai county) 春海厂 (spring ocean factory) 出品 (produce/product).
DeleteFront says it is wild leaf (ye sheng) and is from Meng Hai.
ReplyDeleteBack says：
It is a shu (ripe)
ingredients are meng hai big leaf varietal (da ye zhong) sun dried (shai qing) mao cha
Producer: Meng Hai County (meng hai xian) Chun Hai Factory
Thank you!
DeleteI'll take it off your hands to alleviate your disappointment....
ReplyDelete=)
DeleteThere's definitely a chance it'll be something you'd enjoy much more than me. Maybe I can bring it next time we meet up for tea. I do have one Shou Pu-erh in my cupboard that I like very much right now though, so I've opened my mind to them a bit!