Opinions on Menghai's 8892

1. It is often referred to as the Latter Red Label, but that has more to do with the red label wrapper than the tea itself.
2. I have tried the late period Red Label, but not this 8892, so I can't really tell how well or poorly it matches up to the originals, but La Red Label is THE La Red Label, and no other can come close to it, IMHO.
3. As Yat has specified on his web, it is produced in the 90s, and has nothing to do with 1988, though the '88' on the serial seems to indicate so.
4. It was in fact produced in the later period of 1990s, and generally agreed not a product from the Menghai Tea Factory. It was a private consignment, made from old stored raw ingredients. This would help explain why some vendors considered it a cooked pu'er, others think it is a green pu'er, and still others think it is half and half.
5. From that period on, there are many other versions of this tea in the market, all not from the Menghai Tea factory, and the price variance is

astoundingly wide.

1. Have you tried this tea? Do you like it? Do you find great joy and satisfaction in this tea? If you do, then enjoy it, ignore what others will have to say...

1. ...& it doesn't really matter where the tea ingredients were from...

Danny

Thanks for your answers Danny,

No I haven't tried that tea, no way I'm going to spend 100+$ on a 90's pu-erh I don't know anything about just to try it. and given your description of this tea I think I'll pass, their [grandtea's] 90's 7542 sounds more interesting to me.