Mengsong

This dark from Yunnan, China offers a distinctive drinking experience. This raw Pu-erh offers an incredibly fragrant and smooth profile, with an astonishing lingering sweetness that beautifully evolves through each infusion. Its complex aroma and delightful shifting swee. It sits in the "Fragrant" and "Sweet" and "Smooth" flavor families, so expect a cup that leans fragrant and sweet 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 2019 harvest.

Prices start at $12.80 through white2tea — that works out to about $0.43 per gram. A 25g package gives you roughly 4 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which puts each session at around $2.58. You can compare prices across all vendors carrying this tea on the Teadar product page.