Gushu Yiwu Gaoshan danzhu ’25

Name: Gushu Yiwu Gaoshan danzhu ’25
Year: 2025 spring
Weight: 250 grams pressed cake
Country of origin: China, Yunnan province

Details:

— the story of Yiwu Gaoshan zhaizi

Gaoshan Village is a Yi ethnic village and a place blessed with excellent feng shui. It faces Mahei Village across the mountains, yet its character is distinctly different. Gaoshan Village is located in the ancient Yiwu tea mountains of northeastern Xishuangbanna. Perched atop high mountain peaks, it earned the name “Gaoshan” (High Mountain), at an elevation of over 1,200 meters. Clouds and mist linger here year-round.

Legend has it that in the 1970s, when the government called on tea farmers to cut down tea trees and plant other crops, many ethnic minorities did not share the same awareness as the Han people, and a large number of old tea gardens were destroyed. Only the Yi people of Gaoshan Village were too indifferent to comply — they simply left the tea trees untouched and went hunting in the mountains with their rifles.

Within the Yiwu tea region, Gaoshan Village has the largest number of ancient tea trees that have never been dwarf-pruned. The old tea gardens coexist with a wide variety of large trees, with most tea trees being over a hundred years old. The ecology is excellent, and the tea trees grow vigorously.

Tea from Gaoshan is one of the finest representatives of the Yiwu tea region. Compared with teas from other Yiwu villages, Gaoshan tea is known for its high aroma and outstanding returning sweetness (huigan).

— tasting notes

unique Yiwu character right in the first brew, sweer, bitter and strong already second brew, deep earthy thick flavour, thick and almost sticky, sweet and exotic woods, still the sweetness is packed in bitterness that creates a nice mouthfeel, delicate essence or rather sweet minerals that needs a bit of attention to observe, when comparted to not that ‘authentic’ Yiwu Zhang Jia Wang (former Mansa) they can be later steep very similar still the Gaoshan danzhu has these tiny sweet cookies inside popping up which makes it more tasty, more fruity, also more thickness and durability is also a sign of danzhu teas