Origin: Menghai, Yunnan, China
Vintage: 2001
Recipe: 7572
Plant material: Yunnan large-leaf tea
Harvest: Mid-April
Processing: Picking → Withering → Sha Qing → Rolling → Sun Drying → Wet Piling → Compression → Drying
This aged shu puer is connected to 7572, one of the benchmark recipe numbers associated with Menghai ripe puer.
In the traditional recipe-number system, 75 refers to the recipe's development in 1975, 7 indicates the approximate average leaf grade used in the blend, and 2 is the historical factory code associated with Menghai Tea Factory.
The tea first undergoes wet-pile fermentation to create the characteristic ripe-puer profile. Subsequent storage over more than two decades allows the fermentation character to settle and the texture and aromatics to integrate further.
The result is less about freshness or high aromatics and more about texture, depth, mature wood and persistent sweetness.
Profile: Baked sweet potato · Sun-dried wood · Autumn leaves · Smooth · Velvety