Yunnan - 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...

"Te Ji" - premium grade of famous high mountain green tea from Huilong village, Dachang township, Lianghe county, Dehong prefecture. Huilong village (Hui Long Zhai) , land area 1.28 square kilometers, elevation 1650 meters, average annual temperature 14.9 ℃, annual precipitation 1491.6 mm. Strong spicy fragrance of dry leaves. Pick one bud and two leaf. This year the Hui Long tea not have too many buds like last year tea in the same quality, buds are smaller. This tea is very good for...

Chun Jian (春尖) –Tento zelený čaj pochází z oblasti Simao a byl sklizen v půli března. Obsahuje 1/3 tipsů (buds) a 2/3 lístků. Nálev je sladký, svěží.

This tea is from Jingmai Da Zhai, grown on the Da Ping Zhang area, and is considered some of the finest Jingmai tea available. Another famous tea village is Mangjing. The Mangjing tea taste more simple and bitter, therefore be sold at a lower price. Jingmai mountain is famous for middle/little leaf tea (中小叶种茶) which is popular for its sweet taste and floral aroma. Jingmai Da Zhai is one of the most famous village and has the biggest ancient tea tree garden in Jingmai mountain,...