Autumn Lincang

This autumn-harvested raw Pu-erh from Na Han Village offers a notably strong and invigorating profile. Initial bitterness quickly transforms into a pleasant sweetness with distinct vegetal undertones. It leans strong, sweet and vegetal.

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 Autumn 2019 harvest.

Starts at $11.25 from Yunnan Sourcing, or about $0.26/g. A 25g package gets you around 4 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $1.56 per session. Compare dark prices across vendors on Teadar.