Wan Gong (Bow Curve)
Loose Leaf Sheng Puer 2023
A particularly mellow and soft sheng puer from Yiwu Mountain, the old forest tea trees surrounding Wan Gong (Bow Curve) Village offer a perfect introduction to sheng puer. The infusion yields sugary aromatics of tropical fruit and honey, minimal bitterness followed by fresh gentle flavors of melon and cucumber.
Original price was: $17.25.$13.80Current price is: $13.80.
- Tea Origin
- Wan Gong, Dingjiazhai, Yiwushan, Mengla County, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China
- Tea Bush
- Yunnan Dayezhong (Yunnan Large Leaf Heirloom Tea Tree)
- Tea Maker
- Gong Liping and Ran Yijun
- Harvest Time
- Early April
- Plucking Standard
- One bud, two leaves
The Wan Gong (Bow Curve) region within Dingjiazhai in Yiwu Mountain has some of the best-preserved populations of old-growth forest tea trees. The natural highland rainforest ecosystem is largely undisturbed, and the tea trees live within a designated National Class I Forest Reserve. With a history of tea cultivation of over a thousand years, Yiwu’s high altitude sheng puer has long made an impression with its approachable flavor, bountiful aromatics, and its distinctive soft yet persistent character.
A historic puer tea mountain origin in Yiwushan
Yiwushan (Yiwu Mountain) was once one of Yunnan’s historic six famous tea mountains and a major stop on the iconic Tea Horse Road puer trade corridor. It became a place to gather puer maocha from all six mountains in the area. Even today Yiwu remains a major point of export for puer tea, since it lies merely 30 kilometers from the border of Laos to the south. This has been highly convenient for getting tea to buyers in Vietnam and Thailand.
As a result of the ongoing drought in Yunnan, Yiwu’s old forest tea trees are yielding slower and slower. Once, their leaves could be plucked every two weeks. Now, however, tea makers can only harvest from them once every few months, making true old-growth Yiwu tea ever more rare.
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