Anhua Hei Cha

This aged Hunan Hei Cha from Xiang Yi Tea Factory offers a sweet and thick liquor. The aroma and flavor are rich with notes of dried fruit, reminiscent of plums, providing a deeply satisfying and comp. It leans fruity, sweet and earthy.

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 Hunan, China. This batch is from the 2007 harvest.

Starts at $12.00 from Yunnan Sourcing, or about $0.17/g. A 50g package gets you around 8 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $1.02 per session. Explore more dark teas on Teadar.