Yiwu

This aged Yiwu pu-erh offers a comforting and mild profile, characteristic of its origin. It presents with a deep, dark liquor, developing a pleasant sweetness as it unfolds. The experience is rounded. It leans warming, sweet and mineral.

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 2003 harvest.

Starts at $225.00 from Teas We Like, or about $0.63/g. A 357g package gets you around 60 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $3.78 per session. Explore more dark teas on Teadar.