One of my favorite tea mountains and a really good year for Yiwu area tea. Big, thick forest notes and smooth bitterness harmonizing with the sweetness. Notes of fruit and honey. Fairly long steeper. Nice drowsing yet alerting and contemplative qi. This is sold as gushu but I’m not sure of the age of the trees as the leaves are firm but the stems are significantly thinner than some top shelf GeDeng teas I’ve had. Those teas were twice the price and somewhat better than this tea but not twice as good…diminishing returns. If you want a solid GeDeng tea at a reasonable price this is the one I recommend.
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Yiwu teas haven’t done much for me yet, but this one…
Nearly $0.71/g though. This has to be the most expensive sheng I’ve tried.
It’s $.58g if you buy the cake. The 2016&17 are much less but lack the punch the 18 has. Still not cheap but most other good teas from Gedeng start at $1. The same is true of most of the more potent Yiwu teas with real intense character and heady qi, like the border area teas from WanGong, GFZ etc. that often bring $1.50. Certain Yibang teas bring $3 as maocha. Ouch. The more affordable Yiwus tend to be the milder delicate teas like Walong and Gaoshan which do very little for me…but…in the past I’ve said the same about Manzhuan teas and called them polite as an insult but have grown to appreciate their delicacy in flavor and qi. Some of the YS Autumn teas like the Yibang have a good bang for the buck but high end Yiwu is generally quite pricy and unfortunately my favorite. Some lower grade teas are available but for the money I’d rather buy an old arbor northern tea like boundless by EOT or a Mengku area…
Yiwu teas haven’t done much for me yet, but this one…
Nearly $0.71/g though. This has to be the most expensive sheng I’ve tried.
It’s $.58g if you buy the cake. The 2016&17 are much less but lack the punch the 18 has. Still not cheap but most other good teas from Gedeng start at $1. The same is true of most of the more potent Yiwu teas with real intense character and heady qi, like the border area teas from WanGong, GFZ etc. that often bring $1.50. Certain Yibang teas bring $3 as maocha. Ouch. The more affordable Yiwus tend to be the milder delicate teas like Walong and Gaoshan which do very little for me…but…in the past I’ve said the same about Manzhuan teas and called them polite as an insult but have grown to appreciate their delicacy in flavor and qi. Some of the YS Autumn teas like the Yibang have a good bang for the buck but high end Yiwu is generally quite pricy and unfortunately my favorite. Some lower grade teas are available but for the money I’d rather buy an old arbor northern tea like boundless by EOT or a Mengku area…