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Pu-erh Tea by Menghai Tea Factory
A proven product with constant quality, nice and tasty, a very unique ‘Menghai’ flavor, it’s very hard to find a competitor against this cake. This cake has the best investment value seen in the past, a 2005 vintage cake could be seen its original price doubled easily, fetching a 100% return.
This is the tea we admired the most and take it as the benchmark to judge other ripen teas, unfortunately few teas come close! It is a bit too young to drink right now, however after a year or two you would be very pleased.
Very good shu, prepared gongfu in a 6 oz. Yixing pot. Used 6g of leaf and rinsed once for about 10s with about a minute rest. Used short steeps at around 15s increasing the time slightly after the second infusion.
These Dayi shu cakes are really good, and I don’t even see the need to let this one age for a year or two like the description says. It brews up clear and tastes clean and malty with some caramel and pipe tobacco notes.
