Ripe Pu-erh

This 2020 Ripe Pu-erh from Nan Jian Tu Lin offers a delightful daily drinking experience. It presents a balanced and complex flavor profile, culminating in a distinctly sweet aftertaste that lingers p. It leans sweet, earthy and balanced.

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 from the Da Ye Zhong cultivar. This batch is from the 2020 harvest.

Starts at $25.25 from Yunnan Sourcing, or about $0.07/g. A 357g package gets you around 60 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $0.42 per session. Compare dark prices across vendors on Teadar.