If you want to try raw pu-erh, you can source cakes and bricks from specialty tea shops, like Silk Road Teas Raw “Sheng” Pu-erh Cake (Buy at SilkRoadTeas, $47.75, makes about 100 mugs).

(Pure Puer is the master distributor for Piao I in the U.S.) Puer tea must be stored properly. It needs to breathe and so should not be kept in a sealed container or plastic bag or sleeve.

The tea is known for its earthy taste, and at first Rockman was worried it would be “nasty and herbaceous.” But she got a 2003 oak-barrel-aged pu-erh mixed with wild rose petals that she ...

Puer tea may not look like much — it is typically sold in heaps resembling cow patties — but one mug of these aged leaves can fetch up to $1,000. The drink is touted for its health benefits ...

Pu’er tea, which comes from the areas around Pu’er city, is some of the most sought after and expensive tea in the world, with the best varieties being worth more than their weight in silver.

Pure Puer offers many options, including 6-gram “bricks” known as tuocha; loose leaves, and, by request, tea bags that contain 2.5 grams of puer and are made especially for the company by a ...

A good tea, especially aged puer tea, can give 4 to 6, even 10 to 12 steeps, changing in character through each steeping, and creating an arc in your experience of the tea and its transformation.