Chinese Bingcha
Chinese Bingcha
Chinese Bingcha
Chinese Bingcha

Chinese Bingcha Loose Leaf Pu'er Tea


Regular price $130.49
(24¢ per cup)

A complete "Bingcha" - a pressed Pu'er (or Pu-erh) cake. This very mellow, ripe loose leaf tea has a soft, velvety texture.

This Pu'er was made from organically grown black tea in 2013 - so it’s a mere youngster - but it has a maturity far beyond its years.

Also known by a myriad of different spellings - Pu'er, Pu'erh, Puer, Puerh, Pu-er, and Pu-erh are all used.

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Tasting Notes

Rich and deep with wonderful notes of cacao.

Quantity

Use 0.1 oz of leaf per 5.5 fl oz of water (2g per 150ml).

Temperature

For the optimum infusion use 194°F (90°C) water.

Time

Infuse for 1 - 2 minutes, tasting regularly. Best enjoyed without milk.

Infusions

You can infuse this tea at least three times. With each careful infusion, different subtleties of flavour are revealed.

Cost Per Cup

24¢ per cup based on 0.1 oz of leaf per 5.5 fl oz of water and 3 infusions.

Origin & Craft

Enjoyed particularly in Hong Kong, Pu'er tea is often drunk with rich food and dim sum – it is believed to aid digestion and purify the blood.

Pu'er tea is traditionally a very slow fermentation of a partly oxidised "dark" tea that can take decades to reach maturity and cost many thousands of pounds. This ripe Pu'er has first been "wet-pilled" where it undergoes an initial wet fermentation for 45 days to begin the process. This allows the tea to reach a smoothness and delicacy of a much older "raw" Pu'er. It is also vastly more affordable.

Some very old Pu'ers that date back to before Chairman Mao's Revolution are extremely valuable. They can be traded for eye-watering sums due to their rarity and the history they belong to - much like vintage champagnes. An old bottle of champagne may be worth a king's ransom and then disappoint as soon as it is opened. It may be corked or spoilt. Its value is not determined on the quality of the liquid inside but on the age of the bottle. The same is sometimes true of Pu'er. Once an old Pu'er cake has been unwrapped, broken and the tea infused - it might not be the most delicious tea despite its price - and its value is then lost, so they are often more traded than drunk.

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