Gushu Rare2 ’15

Name: Gushu Rare2 ’15
Original name: Kong Shan Ling Yun 空山灵(靈)韵*
Year: 2015 spring
Weight: 250 grams pressed cake
Whereabouts: China, Yunnan province, Yibang

Details:

Rare2 and Rare3 are similar teas, not only with age, both are forest grown on rocky mountain, Yiwu mountain is not far from Yibang, both stored at the same place in Jinghong till mid 2025, center of Xishuangbanna (a place of famous six tea mountains)

this Yibang Rare2 is from rare big leaf variety (Yibang teas are mostly small leaf variety), it is less sweeter than Rare3 (Yiwu), more minerality is present, more bitterness added to it, I would say its edges are more sharper, …

more notes added later…

Alex from puerh.blog reviewed this tea here

* “The spiritual charm of a tranquil mountain” or “The ethereal grace of an empty mountain.”
空山 (kōng shān) — literally “empty mountain,” often used in classical Chinese to mean a quiet, secluded, or uninhabited mountain.
灵韵 (líng yùn) — “spiritual charm,” “ethereal grace,” or “mystical resonance,” referring to an elegant, almost otherworldly quality.
So overall, it conveys a poetic image of a serene, uninhabited mountain filled with a kind of mystical aura.

source: This is a chatgpt translation