Menghai 7572 Style — Ripe (shou) cake · 357 g

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Pu-erh · Menghai, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan

Menghai 7572 Style

Ripe (shou) cake · 357 g

4.8 · 36 reviews

CAD 12.00$

The everyday ripe pu-erh benchmark: dark, smooth and earthy, with date, cocoa and forest floor, and no bitterness at all.

Dried dateCocoaForest floorCamphorSmooth, no astringency

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Origin: Menghai, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan
Altitude: 1,500 m
Cultivar: Menghai big-leaf
Harvest: Blend of 2019–2021 leaf, pressed 2022
Oxidation: Post-fermented (pile-fermented)
Roast: None
Caffeine: Moderate
Liquor: Dark mahogany, almost black
SKU: CY-PE-001

7572 is the recipe code of the tea that taught China to drink ripe pu-erh, and this is our homage: a blend of 2019–2021 Menghai leaf, pile-fermented to completion and pressed into a 357 g cake in 2022.

Ripe pu-erh is the most forgiving tea in the world. It cannot go bitter, it loves boiling water, and it steeps past a dozen infusions. The flavour is dark and rounded: dried date, cocoa, damp forest, a touch of camphor rising at the back of the throat. In Guangzhou it is drunk all day with dim sum, and for good reason — it cuts through fat better than anything else.

Gaiwan: 7 g · 150 ml · 100 °C · rinse once, then 15 s, +10 s · 12+ infusions
Western: 5 g per 300 ml · 100 °C · 4 min
Vessel: Yixing zisha pot, dedicated to pu-erh if you can

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Shipping is complimentary on orders over CAD 79.00$; below that a flat CAD 9.50$ applies. HST (13%) is calculated at checkout. Duties and import taxes are the recipient's responsibility.

Unopened tins can be returned within 30 days for a full refund. If a tea is not to your taste, tell us — we would rather send you something you like than keep the money.

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