Autumn Lincang

This dark from Yunnan, China offers a distinctive drinking experience. This raw Pu-erh tea offers an intense and powerful experience, with a pungent and distinctly floral profile, notably an elegant orchid aroma. It presents a notable astringency and bitterness that is b. It sits in the "Pungent" and "Floral" and "Astringent" flavor families, so expect a cup that leans pungent and floral and astringent.

Aim for water around 95–100 °C (203–212 °F). Western style: steep for 3–5 minutes in a mug or teapot. Gongfu style: use 5–7 g per 100 ml, 10–20 s steeps (10–20+ infusions) for multiple short steeps — this way you can taste how the flavor evolves. Give the leaves a quick rinse with boiling water before your first real steep — it wakes up the flavors and removes any storage dust.

This dark is grown in Yunnan, China and is made from the Da Ye Zhong cultivar. This particular batch comes from the Autumn 2013 harvest.

Prices start at $17.75 through Yunnan Sourcing — that works out to about $0.46 per gram. A 25g package gives you roughly 4 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which puts each session at around $2.76. You can compare prices across all vendors carrying this tea on the Teadar product page.