Spring Ripe Pu-erh

This Ripe Pu-erh presents a vibrant, deep red-wine liquor. Its profile is notably smooth with a distinct sweet aftertaste, carrying delightful hints of sugarcane. Having mellowed past its initial ferm. It leans sweet, smooth and sugarcane.

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 2009 harvest.

Starts at $8.25 from Yunnan Sourcing, or about $0.33/g. A 25g package gets you around 4 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $1.98 per session. Compare dark prices across vendors on Teadar.