Gu Shu Dan Zu

Another wonderful tea from the best tea shop in Las Vegas. There’s always a bit of mystery going into a tea that is wrapped, in a language you don’t know, and there is nothing on the website. I probably mentioned this before but I will do so again who didn’t read it in my review of some of their other tea. This is a mom-and-pop shop and they (when I met the lady) said that they can’t afford to have someone updating their website for it is just for presence. After contacting them I was informed that it is a Gu shu. The whole name means old tree single shoot.
Didn’t smell much at first but once broken up the aroma is very pleasant. Sweet and barnyard. Strangely, my son’s plastic cup worked nicely as an aroma cup and to help break up the ball without making a mess. Even my son liked the smell. The wet aroma is slightly creamy with lots of farm notes. Hay, dried pine, old farmhouse wood. The wet leaves are high in summer florals. Then we move to taste which is full of barnyard notes. Summer florals and creamy notes. Longer steeps are a bit unpleasant. Mineral and metallic.

Leaf olive green and fuzzy silver buds