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100°CTemperature
7g 100ml
Wash: 5s • 1st: 10s • Add: +5sGongfu Timing
Origin
Yunnan, China
Harvest
2017
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Tasting Notes
EarthySweetSmooth
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This house-blended ripe Pu-erh offers a comforting and consistently delicious brew, perfect for a daily drinker. Expect a smooth, sweet, and wonderfully thick liquor, showcasing the classic earthy notes and satisfying depth characteristic of Menghai productions. It's ready to enjoy now and promises to improve with further aging.
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About This Tea
What does 2017 Old Reliable taste like?
This house-blended ripe Pu-erh offers a comforting and consistently delicious brew, perfect for a daily drinker. Expect a smooth, sweet, and wonderfully thick liquor, showcasing the classic earthy not. It leans earthy, sweet and smooth.
How should I brew 2017 Old Reliable?
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.
Where does 2017 Old Reliable come from?
Grown in Yunnan, China. This batch is from the 2017 harvest.
How much does 2017 Old Reliable cost?
Starts at $3.60 from white2tea, or about $0.11/g. A 25g package gets you around 4 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $0.66 per session. Explore more dark teas on Teadar.
$3.60$0.11/g