Mansa - 2012

Our Yiwu gushu for this year comes from an old village in Mansa area - Zhang Jia Wan Lao Zhai （张家湾老寨）. Zhang Jia Wan Lao Zhai is a village more than 30km away from Yiwu town, and 13km from Zhang Jia Wan Xin Zhai（张家湾新寨）, bordering Laos in the south. There is big area of ancient tea trees garden. Many of them was chopped down or burned around 1981. The stance to "gu cha shu" was very different at that time. Maocha cost only a fraction of today's price and old high trees were a...