Ripe Pu-erh

This potent Ripe Pu-erh unveils a profound dark chocolate aroma, leading to a luxurious and silky mouthfeel. It delivers a rich cacao bitterness that harmonizes with a complex, enduring fragrance, per. It leans dark chocolate, cacao 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 2023 harvest.

Starts at $10.15 from Kuura Corp, or about $0.29/g. A 25g package gets you around 4 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $1.74 per session. Explore more dark teas on Teadar.