Spring Ailao

This 2014 Wuliang ancient arbor Sheng Pu-erh offers a journey through forest depths, with initial notes of damp earth and stone fruit evolving into a long-lasting, robust sweetness. A tea with signifi. It leans forest, fruity and robust.

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 Spring 2014 harvest.

Starts at $120.00 from NWPuerh, or about $0.34/g. A 357g package gets you around 60 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $2.04 per session. Explore more dark teas on Teadar.