Two Pu Questions

[Catfur]

1) Does anybody know what year Xiaguan's Xia Fa ripe tuos went from CNNP mark to Xiaguan's mark?

2) Is Jing Mai near Nannuo (the teas taste similar)?

[bearsbearsbears]

2) Is Jing Mai near Nannuo (the teas taste similar)?

They're not very close, and I don't find them terribly similar, myself.

Jing mai is northwest of Nannuo/Gelanghe, about 150km by road, but much mountainous terrain lay between the two. Driving, you would pass through Menghai, past Bulang and Bada, and into the Western center of Pu'er County (Simao). It's about halfway between Menghai and Shuanjiang (Lincang) where Mengku is (approximately 100km to the north).

[the_skua]

2) Is Jing Mai near Nannuo (the teas taste similar)?

They're not very close, and I don't find them terribly similar, myself.

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I don't think they're all that similar, either. Although, my experience with Jing Mai is significantly less than with Nannuo.

[zzenster]

2) Is Jing Mai near Nannuo (the teas taste similar)?

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I am not 100% sure about the locations but they don't taste similar at all.
In fact, I believe they are slightly different varietals of tea leaves. Nan nou has "big leaves" varietal and Jingmai has "small leaves" varietal.

[Catfur]

Nobody has any clue about ? #1?

[gingkoseto]

Nobody has any clue about ? #1?

Only a small clue. According to Xia Guan factory record, they started to use the crane trademark for French export tuo in 1998 in order to sell it in domestic market too. Very possibly they use the crane trademark for export from then on. But I don't know if there were CNNP labeled boxes left from previous years and if they still use them for export products after 1998. Such things happened on some puerh products.

But no clue may be even better, because then you can't judge a product by the package, which is never reliable

[Catfur]

Nobody has any clue about ? #1?

Only a small clue. According to Xia Guan factory record, they started to use the crane trademark for French export tuo in 1998 in order to sell it in domestic market too. Very possibly they use the crane trademark for export from then on. But I don't know if there were CNNP labeled boxes left from previous years and if they still use them for export products after 1998. Such things happened on some puerh products.

But no clue may be even better, because then you can't judge a product by the package, which is never reliable

Something tells me the $4.99 Tuos at my "local" (local in this instance means 160 miles away) Asian market aren't from 1998. They are CNNP mark on the wrapper, though, not crane mark.

[gingkoseto]

Nobody has any clue about ? #1?

Only a small clue. According to Xia Guan factory record, they started to use the crane trademark for French export tuo in 1998 in order to sell it in domestic market too. Very possibly they use the crane trademark for export from then on. But I don't know if there were CNNP labeled boxes left from previous years and if they still use them for export products after 1998. Such things happened on some puerh products.

But no clue may be even better, because then you can't judge a product by the package, which is never reliable

Something tells me the $4.99 Tuos at my "local" (local in this instance means 160 miles away) Asian market aren't from 1998. They are CNNP mark on the wrapper, though, not crane mark.

And they are Xiao Fa tuo? Then I think you can report them to police

Anyway, almost all the legitimate tea products after 2005 should have production date and expire date on the package (however sometimes at very inconvenient corners). And it's very unlikely the groceries can have pre-2005 products. By this logic, every grocery product should have date information, otherwise it's suspicious.