DA YOU, 40TH ANNIVERSARY | 2015 Ripe Pu Er Tea

A mature ripe cake honouring the classic 1975 Menghai-style ripe recipes.

This is a tea with real lineage. Da You built it in homage to the 1975 Menghai-style ripe tradition — the recipes that gave us icons like 7572 and 7592 — using pure material, careful fermentation, and professional maturation before pressing. It's not trying to reinvent anything; it's a continuation, made properly.

The nose leads with red liquorice, polished mahogany, dried jujube, and warm loam — earthy and a little nostalgic. On the palate it's soft and thick, with a mellow sweetness and a character that sits right at the crossroads of Yongde and Menghai styles. The finish is clean, red-toned, and quietly persistent — it doesn't need to announce itself.

Think of this as the house claret of the collection: reliable, dignified, and ready to drink now — but with enough depth underneath to reward serious tasting too.

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Serving suggestion: Pour it for someone who wants a proper, grounded ripe pu er — the kind of cake you keep coming back to, night after night, without it ever getting old.