Factory Blend

This 2014 Xiaguan "Jia Ji" Tuocha offers a classic aged raw Pu-erh profile, with a robust earthiness that evokes damp forest floors and aged wood. Subtle sweetness emerges alongside a sturdy body and . It leans earthy, woody 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. This batch is from the 2014 harvest.

Starts at $8.99 from King Tea Mall, or about $0.02/g. A 500g package gets you around 83 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $0.12 per session. Explore more dark teas on Teadar.