Gushu MangSheQing gaogan ’24

Name: Gushu MangSheQing gaogan ’24
Year: 2024 spring
Weight: 250 grams pressed cake
Country of origin: China, Yunnan province

Details:

rich and thick taste from the first brew, after a while drinking the first brew distinctive aftertaste appears, the second brew brings more distinctive, staying the mounth flavour, tasty and the same time very unique, nuttiness, like bitter almonds, third brew brings a rounder taste and softer texture, the fourth brew is even fuller, richer and thicker a pure bliss of deep jungle with so good pinch of exotic wood, myrha, incense in the afertaste, the fith brew brings unusuall sweetness with a wide spectrum of flavours (flowers in the first several brews)

Mangshe qing is only 30 km away only and sometimes is called Yiwu Mangshe qing, it already belongs to Mengla county. The deep mountain jungle with freely growing, unpruned giant (gaogan) tea trees are treasures that been hunted down in this area only lately. The perfect, untouched dense forest enviroment provides perfect condition for growth of a such ‘jungle’ tea leaves.

MangSheQing could stand for python (snake) bamboo forest/grove. The area where the tea trees are can be reached very hard, the dense forest and with almost no roads. The giant tea trees has to be climbed for picking the leaves.

A review by Alex in german and translated english can be read here