Ripe Pu-erh

This 2023 Menghai 7572 Ripe Pu-erh offers a mellow and sweet profile, having benefited from a year of post-fermentation aging. It brews up a clear liquor with a taste that's lighter than a creamy '726. It leans sweet, mellow and earthy.

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 2022 harvest.

Starts at $32.00 from Yunnan Sourcing, or about $0.09/g. A 357g package gets you around 60 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $0.54 per session. Compare dark prices across vendors on Teadar.