Tasting autumn tea at LaoBanZhang village and have a comparison of GuShu and Shrub.
The gate to LaoBanZhang village. A classical house of local farmer's in village. We had a comparison of GuShu and Shrub' maocha. Gushu means more than 300 years old, but shrub is under 70 years old. When we talk about gushu, we must confirm the age of the tea tree. Then we will decide to call that gushu, dashu, organic tree or shrub by ourself. Both gushu and shrub are picked just in this autumn and almost processed at the same time. My local partner put both leaves into one basket and asked me to separate gushu from shrub. What do you think about that? Which is gushu, which is shrub? The newly processed tea leaves have a fragrance of like grass. They told us these were just picked up days ago. How to describe these leaves? Long. These are really very long. I select one with straight stem and put that on my hand like below. 一芽两叶（yi ya liang ye）which means one bud with two leaves. With t...
