Global Hongcha

This black from Yunnan, China offers a distinctive drinking experience. This unique blend of sun-dried white and black teas yields a liquor that is wonderfully thick, smooth, and fragrant. It offers a comforting, warming character on the palate, and impressively maintains. It sits in the "Thick" and "Smooth" and "Warming" flavor families, so expect a cup that leans thick and smooth and warming.

Aim for water around 90–100 °C (195–212 °F). Western style: steep for 3–5 minutes in a mug or teapot. Gongfu style: use 5 g per 100 ml, 15–30 s infusions for multiple short steeps — this way you can taste how the flavor evolves. Most black teas can handle a full rolling boil, so don't overthink the water temperature.

This black is grown in Yunnan, China. This particular batch comes from the 2018 harvest.

Prices start at $32.50 through white2tea — that works out to about $0.16 per gram. A 200g package gives you roughly 33 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which puts each session at around $0.96. You can compare prices across all vendors carrying this tea on the Teadar product page.