Yiwu

This dark from Yunnan, China offers a distinctive drinking experience. This Yiwu blend raw Pu-erh offers profound complexity, hinting at forest floor and dried fruit, alongside a wonderfully smooth mouthfeel. It possesses a surprising underlying strength that speaks to i. It sits in the "Earthy" and "Complex" and "Smooth" flavor families, so expect a cup that leans earthy and complex and smooth.

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 Yunnan, China. This particular batch comes from the 2018 harvest.

Prices start at $58.00 through white2tea — that works out to about $1.99 per gram. A 25g package gives you roughly 4 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which puts each session at around $11.94. You can compare prices across all vendors carrying this tea on the Teadar product page.