Autumn Yiwu

This aged Yiwu Sheng Pu-erh offers a smooth and evolving character, with notes of dried fruits, forest floor, and a pleasant sweetness that hints at its potential for further complexity. Its fourteen . It leans earthy, fruity and smooth.

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 $8.50 from NWPuerh, or about $0.75/g. A 10g package gets you around 2 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $4.50 per session. Explore more dark teas on Teadar.