I started brewing this Gushu Hong black tea yesterday and infused it several times. Today it's still a rich dark color with a delicious full flavor. I suppose you could say it's the John Wick of teas, or for a historical analogy, the Rasputin of black teas.
https://sparrowtailteas.com/collections/black-teas/products/gushu-hong-jinngu-black-tea

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Started with a #Shu #Puerh from Myanmar.
I ordered it from a local shop, which apparently had less than a cake of this tea - it's already gone from their site.

According to the label - 2018, #GuShu material.

Dry leaves smell like a fruit wood.

When brewed - taste like a very light #Shu, pretty much without any traces of a dustiness.

We coined a description - "fruit tree branches taste".

More or less just a curious thing to try once.

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Finishing a sampler of "Suan Zao Shu", a Jinggu #GuShu Yunnanese #Hongcha ['21 or '22, YS].

In general, it's a potent CSvA tea, the most intriguing parts are:
1. dry leaf smell - sweet rose
2. taste - to me it seems to lie in between of pure Assamica from non-China and CSvS from other Chinese regions.

Tea starts to taste like it's your good Indian or SriLankan, but then it surprisingly do not overwhelm you with too much of astringency. That's neat, however that's it.

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I'm going to spend what's left from "Peony Chirps" - #GuShu (100+ yo trees) #BaiCha (white tea) from Nan Nuo [Spring `21, ML], but this attempt was something different - brewing in silver and sipping from my latest purchased cup.

The pros and cons of brewing in silver are about the same - teapot doesn't add (or take out) anything to the tea, being quite honest about actual liquid taste, but oftentimes you need that effect of a clay.

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#Performance of #Xiangyuan #gushu (襄垣鼓书), a #genre of #traditional accompanied #narrative #singing ( #Chinese : #shuochang 说唱) from #Xiangyuan (襄垣县), #Changzhi (长治市), southeastern #Shanxi province (山西省), northern #China . The 7-member #troupe is made up entirely of #blind #performers .

https://youtu.be/57vy171Ogwo

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