Factory Blend

This young Sheng Pu-erh offers a lively, fresh character typical of a 2017 pressing. Expect bright, herbaceous notes with a clean astringency and a hint of developing complexity. It provides a crisp, . It leans fresh, astringent and vegetal.

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 2017 harvest.

Starts at $19.99 from King Tea Mall, or about $0.27/g. A 30g package gets you around 5 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $1.62 per session. Explore more dark teas on Teadar.