{"id":14498,"date":"2026-10-18T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zentea-shop.com\/?p=14498"},"modified":"2026-10-13T20:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T12:12:13","slug":"anle-hao-duoyishu-2023-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zentea-shop.com\/en\/2026\/10\/18\/anle-hao-duoyishu-2023-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Anle Hao Duoyishu Tall-Stem 2023: In the Primeval Forest, Tall Stems Reach for the Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tea is life \u2014 in every steep, a lesson; in every cup, a practice.<\/em><\/p>\n

Duoyishu is a micro-region of real standing on the edge of Yiwu, named after a fruit tree the locals call “duo yi.” The ancient tea gardens here hide inside primeval forest, and their specialty is the “tall-stem” ancient tree: not a low, rounded bush but a tree with a straight trunk rising several \u2014 even a dozen \u2014 metres, its leaf crowning the top, harvested by climbers. Tall-stem ancients are deep-rooted and full-bodied, drawing on a century of the forest’s essence; the tea is thick and the vitality strong, a rare resource the trade has come to prize.<\/p>\n

The signature of Anle Hao’s 2023 Duoyishu Tall-Stem is the thickness of the liquor: on entry it is dense and slick, with a broth-like, silken body; sweet and settled, the mountain vitality strong without harshness, and a throat resonance deep and lasting. Much of a tall-stem tree’s quality comes from its roots: rooted deep, it draws enough nourishment for a grand frame. When I open this cake with friends I say little \u2014 the word “thick” says it all. Thick without heaviness, smooth with a spine: that is the bearing only a tall-stem ancient can give.<\/p>\n

Harvesting is genuinely difficult: one tree often needs its own climber, and a whole year yields only tens of kilograms of fresh leaf. In making Duoyishu Tall-Stem, Anle Hao continues its long-standing rules with the mountain farmers \u2014 pick with restraint, quota by tree, process each batch separately. The Li family has made tea for two hundred years and understands a plain truth: the mountain is heaven’s, the rules are your own \u2014 and you shortchange neither. When this batch entered the cellar, I set aside several cakes to age alongside the 2023 Mangsheqing and Mao Er Duo, so that one day we can compare how three micro-regions transform. That comparison will be fascinating.<\/p>\n

For wellness, tall-stem ancient tree tea is rich in substance and almost filling to drink, and it endures infusion after infusion \u2014 one brew can accompany half a day. My own experience is a word: steadiness. The tea’s energy is full without scattering; it wakes the mind without agitating it \u2014 well suited to long hours of thought or moments that call for composure. In the primeval forest, tall stems reach for the sky: this cake is like an elder standing among the trees, needing no words, carrying a settled strength of its own.<\/p>\n

Tea has grades, but no one is barred from the table.<\/em><\/p>\n

Why are tall-stem ancients so rare? Begin with the ecology of the forest. In a pruned plantation the trees are cut and managed low, easy to pick but limited in vigour. A tall-stem ancient in primeval forest competes with giants for light: fail to grow upward and it is shaded to death \u2014 so each tree rises higher and roots deeper, woven into the ecology of the whole forest. Such wild, free-growing tea yields little, but the thickness and depth of its liquor are hard for plantation tea to approach. The area around Duoyishu is exactly where tall-stem ancients survive most completely.<\/p>\n

At a tea gathering I once ran a small experiment: one table, a tall-stem ancient and an ordinary ancient opened together, no names shown \u2014 a blind tasting. Of eight tea friends, seven pointed to the same cup as “thicker, sweeter, longer-lasting.” The tall-stem won clearly. A young guest asked me why, and I answered with a bowl of soup: with the same ingredients, a slow-simmered broth and a quick one differ in body. The decades of deep roots in a tall-stem ancient are its slow simmer. Anle Hao’s 2023 Duoyishu Tall-Stem deserves to be tasted with exactly that seriousness.<\/p>\n

Tall-stem tea endures \u2014 a dozen infusions and the flavour still holds \u2014 so I suggest drinking it as a “long sitting”: one unhurried afternoon, from the first pour to the final water, watching it change as it goes \u2014 thick at the opening, sweet in the middle, clear at the close, like a book read from first page to last. Life rushes; we seldom finish anything slowly, end to end. One sitting of tall-stem tea gives yourself a complete afternoon. That completeness is how tea nurtures the heart.<\/p>\n

Friends through tea \u2014 please, join the cup.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Tea is life \u2014 in every steep, a lesson; in every cup, a practice. Duoyishu is a micro-region of real standing on the edge of Yiwu, named after a fruit tree the locals call “duo yi.” The ancient tea gardens here hide inside primeval forest, and their specialty is the “tall-stem” ancient tree: not a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lamsam-tea-notes-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zentea-shop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zentea-shop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zentea-shop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zentea-shop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zentea-shop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zentea-shop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14577,"href":"https:\/\/zentea-shop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14498\/revisions\/14577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zentea-shop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zentea-shop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zentea-shop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zentea-shop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}