2007 Menghai Dayi Adorned in Red Ripe from Menghai Tea Factory

2007 Menghai Dayi Adorned in Red Ripe

Tea type
Pu'erh Tea
Ingredients
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Flavors
Mineral, Mint, Oak, Spicy, Sweet, Cedar, Cinnamon, Earth, Wood
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205 °F / 96 °C 0 min, 15 sec 8 g 5 oz / 141 ml

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  • “Thank you mrmopar for this sample Pu-erh! My education in Pu-erh has come from the generous people here on Steepster who share with me from their personal supplies of Pu-erh (like mrmopar, Roughage...” Read full tasting note
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  • “This is so nice tonight. Really mellow and slightly haylike, but there’s a bit of sweetness here too. This almost smells like honey and wood to me. I’ve debated posting anything about my day...” Read full tasting note
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  • “This tea is very rich with a slight mineral taste that moves on to an almost oak taste as found in a good dry red wine. This tea brews a nice dark orange color with a light floral or citrus aroma...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Deep burgundy color. The flavor is smooth and earthy with a medium body and has slight cedar, cocoa, and coffee flavors upfront, and ends with lighter citrus and hay notes, followed by a run-on...” Read full tasting note
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From Menghai Tea Factory

Also known as 2007 Menghai Dayi Hong Zhuang Ripe 400g
Tight compression and blended with high-grade material, this ripe tea is another hit from Menghai! Brews up so nice with its deep-red color and rich aroma, thick taste. No post-fermentation flavor left in this one, completely ready for enjoyment now.The name of the tea comes from a poem wrote by Mao Zedong in 1936. It has been printed on the packaing of the cake too.

North country scene:
A hundred leagues locked in ice,
A thousand leagues of whirling snow.
Both side of the Great Wall
One single white immensity.
The Yellow River’s swift current
Is stilled from end to end.
The mountains dance silver snakes
And the highland charge like wax-hued elephants.
Vying with heaven in stature.
On a fine day, the land,
Clad in white, adorned in red,
Crows more enchanting.

This land so rich in beauty
Has made countless heroes bow in homage.
But alas! Qin Shihuang and Han Wudi
Were lacking in literary grace,
And Tang Taizong and Song Taizu
Had little poetry in their souls;
That proud son of Heaven,
Genghis Khan,
Knew only shooting eagles, bow outstretched.
All are past and gone!
For truly great men
Look to this age alone.

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I traveled to northern Minnesota to visit my parents for spring break instead of going south as most sane people do. I did bring along my yixing and my dad gave me a large chunk of this tea to try. As I am delayed from driving home due to 5 inches of snow covering icy roads on April 1st, I decided to try the adorned in red, since it is pretty obvious I am going nowhere for a while!

My first reaction upon this tea is the wonderful cedar wood like aroma and flavor this tea has. I am on a fourth steeping of this and this cedar aroma/flavor continues to present itself more subtly each steep. It is giving way to a more mellow mineral flavor in the last steeping. This is a really nice and unique pu’er. I haven’t tried anything quite like it! It is a welcome surprise as I sit here watching the snowfall wondering if I am just the unluckiest guy on the planet or if there is some celestial April Fools joke being played on me right now. Either way at least I have a great cup of tea :)
Preparation
Boiling 3 tsp 6 OZ / 177 ML
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I’ve spent most of this week enjoying the last of the sample I was sent. It has been a real pleasure to drink this tea, even though my life seems to be too busy and my mind racing too much to sit down and think hard about what I am drinking. The mellow character of the tea has forced a certain amount of calm. Nice.
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