Liu An Basket Tea

This dark from Anhui, China offers a distinctive drinking experience. This dark tea from Anhui offers a profoundly brothy and intense character, delivering a smooth yet thick body. It unfolds with potent aromas of spice and layers of sweet flavors that linger on the pal. It sits in the "Spiced" and "Sweet" and "Brothy" flavor families, so expect a cup that leans spiced and sweet and brothy.

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 Anhui, China. This particular batch comes from the 2019 harvest.

Prices start at $11.50 through white2tea — that works out to about $0.40 per gram. A 25g package gives you roughly 4 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which puts each session at around $2.40. You can compare prices across all vendors carrying this tea on the Teadar product page.