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“4g, 70 mL TWL gaiwan This session was with a good amount of broken edge bits from my cake, but the compression overall seems pretty tight TCM medicinal, incense aroma on the prewarmed dry leaf Wet:...” Read full tasting note
There is no more universally acknowledged benchmark for sheng puerh after 1980 than the Menghai Tea Factory (Dayi) 7542 recipe. We have tried several batches from the well-regarded 2005 vintage and this batch 504 strikes an excellent balance between price and performance. Showing a rich woody incense aroma, good concentration and active in the mouth, with the characteristic plumminess of 7542. It is getting increasingly difficult to find well-stored versions of MTF productions from before the 2007 boom, and we were fortunate to be able to find two well-stored versions, one from Taiwan and one from Malaysia. We offer both below as full cakes.
approximately 357g per cake.
2005 Dayi 8582 batch 501, Malaysian storage
Teas We Like2009 Dayi: Blend #7542, Batch #301 (Taiwan Storage)
Beautiful Taiwan Tea Company2015 DaYi 7542 1st Batch
King Tea Mall2011 Dayi ‘7542’ Raw Pu erh Tea Cake (Guangdong Storage)
Green Tea Guru2004 Nannuo Gushu Sample, Malaysian Storage
Teas We LikeDa Yi 2005 Raw Puer 7542
J Tea International4g, 70 mL TWL gaiwan
This session was with a good amount of broken edge bits from my cake, but the compression overall seems pretty tight
TCM medicinal, incense aroma on the prewarmed dry leaf
Wet: slight smoke, aged notes, incense, sour woody
1. Bitter! Strong incense off the soup aroma. medicinal, and a slight floral taste. Sugar cane sweet aftertaste. Alerting.
2. Bitter medicinal. Sweetness in mouth
3. Similar
4. Bitter
Did a couple more steeps, but this is not really my favorite profile. It certainly has more room to age out the bitterness. This session showed a pretty linear profile as a whole, but I can see why it’s a standard/reference. That being said, I can’t imagine a beginner liking this straight off the bat, even with lighter ratio. TeaDB did a video recently on puerh drinkers getting too used to bitterness and losing sensitivity to tasting it, and it’s also something MarshalN has noted in old blog posts, but I didn’t realize it had also happened to me until drinking with others. All that to say, I think this is genuinely quite bitter. Lol. But not in a disgusting and unpalatable way like Lich Tears, which was a little traumatic.
Feeling wise is a bit jittery. Definitely not as comfortable as the 2005 MY 8582. This will go into the hotbox.
