2003 Menghai Tea Factory Purple Dayi
This is a comparison between a verified 2003 Purple Dayi 7542 (shown above) and a version from Houde which may or may not be an official Dayi production. Thanks to...
Processing/Aging: W2T Tuhao AF vs 1701-7542
Checking in on some cakes in heated storage from around 10 years ago. First we have the W2T Tuhao AF, which has continued along the trajectory I described here (2018),...
2003 7542 Hong Kong Commission
I just attended a conference where I met a good friend (and great mathematician!) from Hong Kong who happens to be a long time puerh drinker. I asked if she...
504-7542 after two decades: Taiwan and Malaysia
This is a comparison between two versions of batch 504 of the Dayi 7542 recipe, after 20 years of clean natural storage in Malaysia and Taiwan. It is part of...
Heated Storage 2017-2024
Here we see the same tea, Dayi’s batch 502 of the 2005 8582 recipe, stored for 11 years in Taiwan, followed on the right with 8 years of room temp...
Dayi 7542-1203, 5 year storage comparison
Two cakes of Dayi’s 7542 from 2012, third batch, one stored for five years at 32C and another stored at room temperature (23C approximately). Toronto filtered tap water in two...
2005 Dayi 8542
5.3g/85ml gaiwan, Toronto filtered tap This is a cake I bought a little more than 5 years ago. It was very harsh, still somewhat smoky, bitter, and with a pronounced...
2007 Dayi 8542
thick cake, very strong compression, and small leaf grade. mild resin wood on dry leaf Light wash, clear, and thick. Wet leaf has mild aroma. Maybe some apricot Strong plummy...
2011 Dayi 7742
Dry leaf is a bit pungent! cat pee! resin. raisin wet leaf, sweet jam and wood. sweet aftertaste, a bit roasty, and a quick uplift, tippy and alerting but very...
2001 Simplified Yun 7542, Dayi Mark
The 2001 Simplified Yun 7542 is widely known as one of the top 7542 recipe productions from the Menghai Tea Factory in the last 25 years. A tea that would...