Spring Ripe Pu-erh

This Gong Ting grade ripe Pu-erh offers a profoundly thick tea soup, bursting with a complex array of deep flavors. Expect a robust mouthfeel and a lingering, sweet finish that makes each sip a truly . It leans earthy, sweet and bold.

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 2018 harvest.

Starts at $8.25 from Yunnan Sourcing, or about $0.17/g. A 25g package gets you around 4 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $1.02 per session. Compare dark prices across vendors on Teadar.