Chenpi Pu-erh

This dark from Guangdong, China offers a distinctive drinking experience. This unique offering combines aged ripe Pu-erh with a 2011 Xinhui Mandarin, creating a tea designed to be steeped with pieces of the orange peel. Expect a grounding woody character and evolving medici. It sits in the "Woody" and "Fruity" and "Medicinal" flavor families, so expect a cup that leans woody and fruity and medicinal.

Aim for water around 95–100 °C (203–212 °F). Western style: steep for 3–5 minutes in a mug or teapot. Gongfu style: use 5–7 g per 100 ml, 10–20 s steeps (10–20+ infusions) for multiple short steeps — this way you can taste how the flavor evolves. Give the leaves a quick rinse with boiling water before your first real steep — it wakes up the flavors and removes any storage dust.

This dark is grown in Guangdong, China.

Prices start at $16.00 through white2tea — that works out to about $0.46 per gram. A 35g package gives you roughly 6 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which puts each session at around $2.76. You can compare prices across all vendors carrying this tea on the Teadar product page.