Malawi Leafy Pu'er
Malawi Leafy Pu'er
Malawi Leafy Pu'er
Malawi Leafy Pu'er
Why this tea is so good

Malawi Leafy Pu'er Loose Leaf Pu'er Tea

11 reviews
£11.49
(19p per cup)
81 in stock

Extremely rare, epicurean loose leaf tea from Malawi.

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JS
21 November 2019
Jennifer S.

Silky Malawi pu erh

This elegant and smooth pu erh from Malawi is what keeps me coming back to Rare Tea Co time and again. This unique tea has the depth and complex flavor one would expect of a pu erh but with a silky sophistication that makes for a gorgeous brew. A good choice for both lovers of pu erh and those looking to try it for the first time. Added to that is the fact that it's sourced from Malawi, an absolutely rare gem of a tea.

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KD
31 August 2020
Katie D.

Rainfall in a Cup

This is some tea, the description is spot on. It tastes like an Autumn rain. Lovely, light, nostalgic, grounding, beautiful. Unlike any tea I've ever tasted.

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01 September 2020
Deborah

Comfort in a cup

I like this tea so much. I reach for it on dreary, damp days more than any other time. It feels like the embodiment of a walk in a wet forest while providing warmth at the same time. It's earthy and comforting and just what I need in the autumn and winter especially.

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CH
01 March 2021
Chris H.
United Kingdom United Kingdom

Perhaps too delicate

Classical pu’er colour but sadly rather too subdued an aroma and palette for my liking.

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GO
03 March 2021
George O.
United Kingdom United Kingdom

Malawi leafy Pu’er

Good price for a Pu’er, lovely round flavour

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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.

Quantity

Use 2.5g of tea per 150ml of water.

Temperature

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

Time

Infuse for 1 - 2 minutes, tasting regularly.

Infusions

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

Cost Per Cup

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

Malawi

The Satemwa Estate

We expected to find our ideal pu'er in China. But whilst visiting the extraordinary tea garden of Satemwa in Malawi, Henrietta tried a pu'er so soft and yet so deep in flavour, she was astounded.

What they have crafted on Satemwa is something so uniquely complex and yet beautifully clean.

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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