Spring Purple Pu-erh

This dark from Yunnan, China offers a distinctive drinking experience. This aged Purple Pu-erh offers an exceptionally smooth and velvety texture. It delights the palate with abundant creamy sweetness and vibrant fruit juice notes, a profile beautifully transformed by it. It sits in the "Creamy" and "Fruity" and "Smooth" flavor families, so expect a cup that leans creamy and fruity and smooth.

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 Zi Ya cultivar. This particular batch comes from the Spring 2015 harvest.

Prices start at $9.00 through Yunnan Sourcing — that works out to about $0.13 per gram. A 50g package gives you roughly 8 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which puts each session at around $0.78. You can compare prices across all vendors carrying this tea on the Teadar product page.