About This Tea
Ingredients: Aged & Fermented Black Tea
Nuances: White/Cremini mushroom, earth, and loam
Steeping Essentials
Amount of PuErh
With gongfu brewing you steep smaller but more portions, this is why Gaiwans and Yixing teapots are the most suitable tools. We recommend 5-8 grams (heaping tsp) of tea steeped 120 ml of water.
Rinsing
In a gongfu session, your tea vessel should be pre-heated, and the leaves should be ‘awakened’ through a quick ‘rinse. To do this you add the tea leaves with 120 ml of water in your steeping vessel (mug or gongfu tea pot). Then you wait for 5-30 seconds and discard the first infusion.
The rinsing time can be short for loose leaf PuErh. Note that the tea leaves don’t have to be completely unfurled. Generally, a 30 second rinse is adequate.
Steeping
After rinsing, you can infuse the tea leaves again with 120 ml of water & cover your gaiwan or teapot with a lid. When you’re using a Yixing teapot, you can optionally pour hot water over it, to further lock in the heat inside of the teapot.
Wait for 10 seconds and pour out. The steeping time for gongfu sessions is much shorter because we’re using a large amount of leaves relative to the amount of water (120 ml).
Generally, we recommend applying a 10 second steep for the first 3 infusions, followed by adding 5 more seconds for every subsequent infusion. However, feel free to adjust this depending on how you like the intensity of the previous steep.
You can reuse the PuErh tea leaves until the flavour has become too light. We recommend doing a final 2-minute brew to draw out all the flavour.
Enjoy your tea!
Storage: Sealed light proof jar/tin in a cool cupboard. Keep away from heat & light sources.
Best Before: 6-9 months depending on storage. Optimum freshness in the first 6 months after opening
Dave Ginn (verified owner) –
Tastes better than it sounds! Delicious, healthy pu-erh.
And apparently good for my high cholesterol.
Richard Calland (verified owner) –
this Pu-Erh is great and for some reason it’s rich, mild but bold flavor seems to invoke a feeling of being nurtured…
Stephen R. (verified owner) –
I am in love with this tea…:-)
Sebastian K. (verified owner) –
Rich and earthy, just what I was looking for
Shahram Rakhshanfar (verified owner) –
Good
Carla (verified owner) –
Musky flavour. Hoping it is going to help lower cholesteral.
Peter W. (verified owner) –
great tea–enjoyed it
silke Fligge (verified owner) –
I love the earthiness of this tea.
Anonymous (verified owner) –
Lovely flavor, very earthy
Mary Klassen (verified owner) –
Love the flavour of the tea,time will tell if it helps reduce cholesterol!! Staff was great💗
Judy Crowston (verified owner) –
Excellent tea
Paula Roseboom (verified owner) –
Was here is a quick amount of time. Easy ordering system.
Heather J Morrison (verified owner) –
Very mild , enjoyable , hope it helps the cholesterol
Leslie Dean (verified owner) –
This tea is amazing. I watches a segment on Global about this tea being good for stomach issues. I have totally given up coffee and get excited for my tea every morning. One happy customer!!!!!!!
Shelley (verified owner) –
Not bad takes a bit to get use to
Patricia B. (verified owner) –
Has a mild earthy taste. Haven’t been drinking it long enough to feel benefits. Service very good.
Mary Jones (verified owner) –
we will see how good it is in a few months
Anonymous (verified owner) –
Taste was better than expected.