Pu'erh Fanatics,
That's it for now, folks.
Michael
Nope. Besides Menghai tea factory there were and are other factories that produced this range of teas, though the first Red Print label cake was from Menghai Tea Factory. However, if I recall correctly, only Red & Blue were fully colour & label prints cakes, the green, yellow, aquamarine, orange, snow-print, bluish green, etc etc, are indicative of the CHA logo only.
That's 2 quetions! 1. Not all yellow labels are blends, some are cooked, some are raw. 2. The issue of raw and cooked blends is debatable : the so-called blends of 20/20 or whatever ratio, are mostly the opinions of vendors, not usually from the factory info. Therefore, they are mostly speculations. One of the steps in processing pu'er in Menghai Tea Factory is the picking of uncooked or half cooked leaves from the cooked ones and discarded. Logically, if this is so, why would they want to mix them back and created blends of cooked and uncooked?
This is a question that can only be answered in the form of an encylopedia...I'll post these later in my blog, but for now, I'm just beginning laying the foundation...
Danny
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