Masu Old bush LapsangSouchong 麻粟老枞小种 2025
Picking Date :2025.May 24th
Cultivar : Cai cha 菜茶(over than 100 years old ,we call this as Hundred years old bush 百年老枞）
Feature：Tongmu Guan桐木关 is located in Wuyishan National Nature Reserve, at the junction of Fujian Province and Jiangxi Province, 65 kilometers away from the center of Wuyishan. The village has a forest area of 315,000 mu and a population of about 2,000. There are 12 villager groups. : Guanping关坪, Miaowan庙湾, Jiangdun江墩, Sangang三港, Qiliqiao七里桥, guadun挂墩, Longdu龙渡, Banshan半山, GuwanKeng古玩坑, Pikeng皮坑, Huangxizhou黄溪洲,Hundred years old fir Masu麻粟 (listed in no particular order) with an average altitude of about 1,000 meters.
Ma Su's tea is sweet in the mouth, and there will be a wonderful slight bitterness in the throat, with rhyme in the bitterness, and the rhyme in the throat will be cool after bitterness, which is called "遁喉dun hou". This "bitterness" is a bit like the bitterness after drinking traditional Chinese herbal medicines. This "pleasent bitterness" is unique to Masu Mountain Field.
Masu Village faces north, and it is windy all year round. The village is located at an altitude of more than 1,300 meters and is very cold all year round. People wear short sleeves at the foot of the mountain, but still wear cotton jackets on the mountain. There is also a lot of snow and frost. In order to survive, tea trees grow and evolve more abundant internal substances to resist this external environment. Therefore, the tea of Masu has extremely rich taste levels. The soil of this tea garden is composed of rock black soil and sand particles. It is rich in minerals and has excellent air permeability. The surrounding vegetation is lush and the surrounding plants are very diverse. Tea trees and bamboos and wild flowers grow together. Thick moss is wrapped from the roots to the treetops. From the soil, water system, and vegetation, none of them has been damaged, and there is no trace of artificial pollution. The ecological chain remains in the most primitive and healthy state. The fresh leaves nurtured by the mountains and waters are really clean and clear.
The characteristics of this tea are, first of all, it has a very obvious Cong (old tree woody )flavor, and secondly, the tea soup is sweet. This old tree small variety and Chigan are both from Masu Village, but from different tea gardens. The picking standards are also different. Chigan is young leaves, while Laocong Xiaozhong is relatively mature leaves. This tea is refreshing. Its main feature is that the tea has a very obvious fir flavor and bamboo leaf flavor. After the third brew, it has a high-grade bitter taste, and the sweetness comes back very quickly and is very strong.