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Malawi Leafy Pu'er Loose Leaf Pu'er Tea

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19p per cup

Style

Extremely rare, epicurean loose leaf tea from Malawi.

Tasting Notes

This is a very gentle fermented tea with warm, earthy notes. These precious leaves hold the wonderful flavours of silky rain water and clean autumn forest floors.

Cost Per Cup

19p per cup based on 2.5g of tea per 150ml of water and 3 infusions.

Origin

Satemwa Estate, Shire Highlands, Malawi

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This is a "shu" or "ripe" pu’er.

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 is unusually made from steamed green tea from the oldest fields on the farm. Planted in the 1920s the original seed came direct from China.

It undergoes short wet fermentation to begin the process with a constant monitoring of the temperature and moisture to ensure they build the characteristic clean forest floor flavour.

Henrietta Lovell, who sources all our tea describes it like this:

"Imagine you are in the middle of the forest, it's raining softly. You are sheltering under tall, broad trees. You can smell the wet grass beneath your feet. In a clearing, there is a little wooden house. Rain is dripping from the wooden roof into a deep, wooden barrel. You cup your hands and dip them into the silky water.
This pu'er tastes of the rain water from the wooden barrel with aromas of wet turf and the forest floor."

Indeed it's so good, it is beloved by René Redzepi of Noma.

Pu’er is 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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Returns

The Rare Tea Lady believes that our teas are some of the greatest in the world, and that our range and service are second to none.

In the isolated case that you are not completely satisfied with any tea or teaware you purchase from our website, please get in contact with our customer services team to discuss returning your order.*

In most instances we will give you a full refund of the item’s cost excluding postage. We may ask you to return the item to us. Customers in the European Union have a statutory cooling-off period of fourteen days that is not affected by this guarantee, but any tea pouches much remained sealed for this to be in effect.

*We only accept returns/refunds for tea within two months of receipt, because it is impossible for us to know if the tea has been stored correctly.