Puerh Tea - Taste Profile

I'm just a poor lowai using online dictionaries like Zhongwen or Mandarintools which use MING2 for famous. I stumbled across this connotation used with mountain when famous brand and famous mountain didn't match up. I found famous mountain in the Unicode definition for DA4 which suggest alternative uses for the word BIG.

Jim

samarkand wrote:

This is a Xiaguan wrapper prior 2004 with the Zhong Emblem which I can find in Chinatown. You can only know it is Xiaguan because the blemishes have been identified elsewhere as such. See a previous thread about Xiaguan Iron Cake. This is the cooked I almost like.

This is the Xiaguan wrapper after 2004 with the Crane emblem. My Chinatown is still selling their old wrapper.

Jim

samarkand wrote:

Hi Jim,

I think there's still a little confusion here.

What you are talking about is BINGCHA - the emblem changed from Zhongcha Pai to Crane IN 2004.

What was discussed once is about TUOCHA - the emblem changed from Zhongcha Pai to Crane IN 1992.

Did you mention Cooked Iron Cake? Xiaguan didn't produce many series of cooked iron cakes, the picture you had looks very much like the 8603 cooked iron cake produced in 2003.

The Crane emblem cake you showed is more confusing. In all appearance it looks like the 8673 cake produced this year. However, from what I know, all cakes produced with the line of code on the left in small red print, and the green words "Yunnan Sheng Zhu Ming Shang Biao" (A famous brand from Yunnan) over the crane emblem, the big red characters framing the top and bottom of the cake should be in SIMPLE characters.

Wrappers without the code on the left and the green words under the crane emblem would have the big red framing characters in FANG TI, or complex characters.

Do you have the inside of the two cakes with the stickers to show?

Danny

I should have cut my comment on the tuocha and just left in your comment on the XG BINGCHA zhong/crane 2004 demarcation year (I just did that). I have the one with the Zhongcha from Chinatown. From one of the Chinese sites my captured graphic indicates XG Iron Cake from 2003. I'm sure the blemishes match mine. There is a Zhongcha sticker with YunnanSheng XiaGuan ChaChang Chupin in Chinese printed across the bottom. The Crane Emblem I think is this year from one of the Chinese auction sites. I showed mine with the Zhongcha and what I should expect one of these days in Chinatown with the Crane. If the cooked

2003 XG Iron Cake was a limited run I'll make another trip to Chinatown to stock up.

Jim

samarkand wrote:

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If it is the 8603, it isn't limited. First production in 2003. Xiaguan is better known for its uncooked tea than the cooked ones. Somehow their processing has yet to match Menghai. Unfortunately I don't think it is the

8603 cake - the sticker inside has a 'G' for a logo...

This is how the code 8673 cake should look like, which is different from the one shown. Suspicious, I won't go for it until I can find out the reason for the difference.

Gee, no G. Can anyone drill down to the 2003 8603 and show the url? I don't know why XGTEA wants me to allow them to run ActiveX just to look at some pictures.

Thanks, Jim

samarkand wrote: