Ripe Pu-erh

This ripe Pu-erh offers a deeply comforting, thick, and warming liquor. It smoothly transitions into a pleasant, cooling sweetness that lingers in the mouth, making it an ideal tea for any time of day. It leans earthy, sweet and warming.

Water around 95–100 °C (203–212 °F). In a mug, steep 3–5 min. For gongfu, use 5–7 g per 100 ml, 10–20 s steeps (10–20+ rounds). You'll get to see how the flavor changes across multiple rounds. Rinse the leaves once with boiling water before your first real steep. It cleans off storage dust and gets the flavor going.

Grown in Yunnan, China from the Menghai Daye cultivar. This batch is from the 2012 harvest.

Starts at $16.00 from Bana Tea Company, or about $0.30/g. A 54g package gets you around 9 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $1.80 per session. Explore more dark teas on Teadar.