春茶
Vendor pressings from April spring leaf (2021).
勐宋
Mengsong
Township in north-east Menghai, north-west of Nannuo; old-tree villages such as Nanben Laozhai and Sanmai, and a regular Menghai Tea Factory (Dayi) sourcing area.
- Level
- Areatownship (勐宋乡)
- Within
- Yunnan › Xishuangbanna › Menghai
At a glance#
Where it lies#
Tea places nearby, plotted by their coordinates. Only physical positions are shown, no boundaries.
1811 places shown Across the view · 198 km
64 places shown Across the view · 72 km
Picking calendar#
Cultivation#
- Cultivars grown
- Yunnan large-leaf
- Practice
- Mix of old-tree villages and plantation/bush tea (vendor describes 'pure assamica bushes'); county tea-institute training in Sanmai (2017).
Local words#
Market#
- Prices of teas claiming this origin
- No reliable Mengsong maocha prices found.
History#
- 2018Menghai's ancient-tree rescue campaign starts, covering Mengsong among other townships.
Other names and written forms 3#
Chinese variants
- 勐宋乡Mengsong — township
Romanisations
- Meng Song
Translations and trade names
- Mengsong Township
Notes#
Mengsong township covers about 494 km² with 23,184 people in nine administrative villages (Manmai, Manfang, Manjin, Manlü, Banggang, Sanmai, Nuoyou, Da'an, Banglong; zh Wikipedia). OSM's township centre (22.0546, 100.5633) agrees. en Wikipedia lists Nanben Laozhai (南本老寨), Sanmai (三迈) and Xiao Mengsong as its terroirs, and TeaDB names Mengsong among the mountains feeding Menghai Tea Factory blends. Mengsong is one of the townships covered by the county's old-tree rescue campaign since 2018. The often-repeated claim that Mengsong's Huazhuliangzi (滑竹梁子) is Xishuangbanna's highest peak was not confirmed from a source I could open, so no elevation is given.
Teas associated with this place#
生普
Sheng pu'er shēng pǔ
Pu-er made from sun-dried maocha without the accelerated wet-piling used for shou; its character changes with manufacture and storage.
draft
熟普
Shou pu'er shú pǔ
Pu-er whose sun-dried maocha undergoes controlled wet-piling, producing a distinct ripe style through microbial, moisture and heat-driven changes.
sourced