Gushu Lancang Xifu ’23

Name: Gushu Lancang Xifu ’23
Year: 2023 spring
Weight: 357 grams pressed cake
Country of origin: China, Yunnan province

Details:

(0)sweet at the zero brew, hints of honey (1) fresh feeling, haze scents, sweet kernels, wet leaves giving exotic wood scents, the gives so much even the brews takes seconds, a strong body feeling from this brew number 1. (2) more, more and more sweetness edged with a superb bitterness, Qi is felt almost all over the body, its flow is very strong (3-4-5) just realized after reading one article about puerh tea trees that are ‘shaded’ by clouds (tea trees ‘love’ cloudy weather) and then shaded by other higher trees in the forest concluding this tea grows in such enviroment, when we take into account Gyokuro japanesse green that is being shaded so that the tea is then sweet once brewed and drunk (6-15)its hard to finish this tea, drinking the 15th or so already cold brew gives so much aroma and flavours still

This tea I came by accident, one chinesse friend of my started to tell me about his classmate who is rather crazy about tea. I became curious and tried (his) this tea I had to buy all he had (one tong of standard cakes).

Lancang or Lincang, Simao is not that famous region but it is good to come out from our cocoon and take a look or let’s say a sip from other region and ohha this tea is RareX as the guy does not probably wants to specify the exact location of this ‘wild’ gushu tea tree paradise. 2200 meter altitude over the Lancan river banks mountains.

This tea is so pure, so pristine feeling, the wet leaves are pleasure to smell, a big meaty healthy leaves it has.