"Michael Plant" > wrote in message
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> Pu'erh Fanatics,
>
> 1. Were all the color+label teas made in the Meng
> Hai factory -- those such as "Red, Green, Blue, and
> Yellow label?

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.
>
> 2. Are all the yellow labels blended sheng and shu?
> (The Grand Tea site shows a Yellow Label as 80/20
> sheng to shu.) How about the other "labels" in this
> regard?

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?
>
> 3. Are the 7532 and 7542 going under any other
> names such as Little Yellow Label or Little Blue
> Label? What double names should we be aware of?
>
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