Spring Ripe Pu-erh

This exquisite ripe Pu-erh offers an incredibly smooth and sweet profile, lacking the typical 'wet pile' notes often found in younger shou. It presents a creamy, velvety texture with a thick body, pro. It leans smooth, creamy 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 $6.50 from Yunnan Sourcing, or about $0.15/g. A 25g package gets you around 4 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $0.90 per session. Compare dark prices across vendors on Teadar.