Autumn Yiwu

This 2011 Yiwu Sheng Pu-erh offers a smooth, mellow character with sweet notes of dried plum and aged honey, underscored by a grounding earthiness reminiscent of a forest floor. Its ancient arbor orig. It leans aged, forest and sweet.

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 2011 harvest.

Starts at $11.50 from NWPuerh, or about $0.90/g. A 10g package gets you around 2 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $5.40 per session. Explore more dark teas on Teadar.