Spring Factory Blend

This 2006 raw Pu-erh brick, a blend from the Menghai area, offers a potent and complex character. Dry-aged in Guangdong, it presents a nicely aged mouthfeel with a slight smokiness, yet retains ample . It leans aged, potent and smoky.

Water around 95–100 °C (203–212 °F). In a mug, steep 3–5 min. For gongfu, use 5–7 g per 100 ml, 10–20 s steeps (10–20+ rounds). You'll get to see how the flavor changes across multiple rounds. Rinse the leaves once with boiling water before your first real steep. It cleans off storage dust and gets the flavor going.

Grown in Yunnan, China. This batch is from the Spring 2006 harvest.

Starts at $9.25 from Yunnan Sourcing, or about $0.25/g. A 25g package gets you around 4 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $1.50 per session. Explore more dark teas on Teadar.