Spring Ripe Pu-erh

This Ripe Pu-erh tea offers a wonderfully thick and hearty body, delivering a complex profile characteristic of premium fermented teas. Expect deep, earthy notes with a smooth sweetness, culminating i. It leans earthy, woody and sweet.

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 2020 harvest.

Starts at $16.00 from Yunnan Sourcing, or about $0.47/g. A 25g package gets you around 4 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $2.82 per session. Compare dark prices across vendors on Teadar.