Factory Blend

This 2015 Xiaguan "Xiao Bai Cai" Sheng Pu-erh offers a lively, bracing experience. Expect a robust infusion with prominent vegetal notes, a clean bitterness, and a brisk astringency typical of younger. It leans vegetal, astringent and woody.

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 2015 harvest.

Starts at $7.99 from King Tea Mall, or about $0.40/g. A 8g package gets you around 1 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $2.40 per session. Explore more dark teas on Teadar.