#易武
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The Same Mountain, Rolled Into a Pearl
Four years into Baoputang's Tianmenshan series, the same spring leaf took a new shape — hand-rolled into dragon pearls instead of pressed into a cake, with two old hours of the day suggested for drinking it.
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The Trees Too Tall to Climb
Some of Tianmenshan's old trees have grown past thirty meters — tall enough to count as "high-pole" gushu, and rare for exactly the reason no one minds: nobody pruned them down to a pickable height.
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A Mountain With No Roads to It
Tianmenshan's old trees never grew in neat rows — they're scattered through old-growth forest near the Laos border, which is exactly why almost no one bothers to climb up and pick them.
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A Tea Laid Down for Daughters
The first vintage of a Yiwu Tianmenshan series Baoputang has pressed every spring since — and the old custom of laying down tea the way you'd lay down wine, for someone not yet ready to taste it.