A post-fermented tea with an earthy profile, dark liquor, and a rounded body.
Recipe
- Temperature 99 °C · 210 °F
- Leaf 5 g
- Water 220 ml
- First steep 0:25
- Each next steep +0:10
- Steeps 12
Lore
Pu-erh once aged slowly along the caravan roads out of Yunnan. In 1973, Menghai's factories learned to hasten it with wo dui, the wet pile, reaching shou pu-erh's dark, cellared calm in weeks.