Spring Liu An Basket Tea

This dark from Anhui, China offers a distinctive drinking experience. This dark tea delivers a dense, inviting fragrance from the first rinse, unfolding into a full-bodied session. Expect a complex interplay of sweetness and a distinctive, lingering 'funk' that pleasant. It sits in the "Earthy" and "Funky" and "Sweet" flavor families, so expect a cup that leans earthy and funky and sweet.

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 Spring 2021 harvest.

Prices start at $9.50 through white2tea — that works out to about $0.36 per gram. A 25g package gives you roughly 4 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which puts each session at around $2.16. You can compare prices across all vendors carrying this tea on the Teadar product page.