Ripe Pu-erh

This rich and deeply comforting Ripe Pu-erh offers a classic earthy profile with notes of damp forest floor and aged wood. Its smooth, thick body unfolds with a pleasant sweetness, leading to a long, . It leans earthy, smooth and deep.

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 2024 harvest.

Starts at $1.99 from King Tea Mall, or about $0.05/g. A 7g package gets you around 1 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $0.30 per session. Explore more dark teas on Teadar.