Spring Raw Pu-erh (Other)

This 2017 Spring Jinggu Sheng Pu-erh presents a vibrant, clean profile, beginning with a pleasant bitterness that swiftly transitions into a thick, lingering sweetness. Its distinctive vegetal charact. It leans vegetal, bitter and sweet.

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 Single Varietal cultivar. This batch is from the Spring 2017 harvest.

Starts at $49.99 from Crimson Lotus Tea, or about $0.25/g. A 200g package gets you around 33 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $1.50 per session. Explore more dark teas on Teadar.