2024 “TheTea” Laos Gushu Sheng Pu-Erh

Surprising tea.

It is sold in China as a tea from “tall end of Yiwu” which is only partially truth because the garden is located just around Chinese border, but on the Laos territory.

But in the past… it was Yiwu… what you can see by looking at the trees. They are the same like Yiwu trees, with many trunks made by cutting them back in the past.

Garden is more than 200 years old and it’s almost unmanaged (yearly cutting the grass and pruning).

Taste profile reminds me some Lao Man E teas, with very nice and balanced “groovy, electric bitterness” and balanced taste full of notes of bitter pomelo or grapefruit.

Good, bright and vivid tea.

Origin: Laos, but just less than fe kilometers from Yiwu border near areas Tong Qing He and Mang She Qing.

Harvest: 30.03.2024

Tea vartietal: Camellia Sinensis var. Assamica

Tea trees age: more than 200 years. Trees were cut back in the past so now they have many trunks. They look like typical old trees in Yiwu area.