Gushu Rare3 ’15

Name: Gushu Rare3 ’15
Original name: Kong Shan Yan Yun 空山岩韵*
Year: 2015 spring
Weight: 250 grams pressed cake
Whereabouts: China, Yunnan province

Details:

round and soft, a very good level of minerality, going to sweet notes, longer brews are desired, a tea with an ethernal charm and calming Qi, at the first brews a light smokiness comes up but it is soon washed away, then endless sweet aging notes are prevailing

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 teamountains),

this Rare3 comes from deep Yiwu mountain and compared to Rare2 is on more on a sweeter side, its character is milder and softer

Alex from puerh.blog reviewed in the past the 2016 version of this tea here

* A faithful yet poetic translation of 空山岩韵 would be:
“Rock Resonance of the Empty Mountain”

For a more literary rendering (like a poem or painting title):
“Echoes of the Empty Mountain Cliffs”
“The Resonant Charm of Silent Crags”
“Stone Rhythms in a Deserted Mountain”

It conveys both the solitude of the mountain (空山) and the timeless, resonant beauty of its rocks or cliffs (岩韵).

source: This is a chatgpt translation