Autumn Mengsong

This 2017 Naka Old Tree raw Pu-erh offers a vibrant initial taste, balancing a gentle floral sweetness with subtle fruit notes. As it unfolds, a pleasant underlying earthiness emerges, characteristic . It leans floral, fruity and earthy.

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 Autumn 2017 harvest.

Starts at $4.99 from King Tea Mall, or about $0.50/g. A 10g package gets you around 2 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $3.00 per session. Explore more dark teas on Teadar.