Spring Ripe Pu-erh

This "Golden Pu-erh" offers a complex profile with a gentle coffee bitterness that smoothly transitions into a sweet sugarcane aftertaste. It boasts a remarkably thick, almost oily mouthfeel with a li. It leans coffee, sugarcane and oily.

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 $140.75 from Yunnan Sourcing, or about $0.14/g. A 1000g package gets you around 167 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $0.84 per session. Compare dark prices across vendors on Teadar.