Puerh Starter Pack
Puerh Starter Pack
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Five small cups that walk through Joanne's curated ripe pu-erh progression — from blended entry to a cake that includes ancient-tree leaves.
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What's inside
Five teas walking the ripe pu-erh spectrum, from blended entries through a daily-drinker brick and a spring-picked loose leaf, to a compressed cake that includes ancient-tree leaves: Tasmanian Lavender Puerh, Mandarin Pu-erh, "Sweet Stock" Ripe Pu-erh Brick 2021, Ripe Pu-erh 2021, and "The One" Ripe Pu-erh Cake 2024. A short tasting guide is included to help you find the pu-erh that suits your palate. Bundle price: $36.
Why this pack
Pu-erh is not one flavour. This pack is Joanne's curated progression through ripe pu-erh — five small cups, in the order she'd pour them for you at the Tea Bar. You start with two blended entries (Tasmanian Lavender and Mandarin), step into a simple pure ripe (Sweet Stock — the one Zachary keeps at home as his daily pu-erh), move into a more layered spring-picked loose leaf (Ripe 2021), and finish on the deepest cup in the pack: a 2024 ripe cake that includes ancient-tree leaves. Three contrasts you can read with your own palate as you walk through: blended vs pure, daily drinker vs more layered, and loose vs compressed. It also includes our Tasmanian Lavender Puerh, a blended ripe pu-erh awarded at the 2025 Royal Tasmanian Fine Food Awards.
The 5 teas
In Joanne's tasting order.
Tasmanian Lavender Puerh
Flavour words: floral / glutinous-rice aroma / mellow-earthy
Position on Joanne's progression: one of two blended entries. Menghai shou pu-erh with Tasmanian-grown lavender, blended in Hobart. The florals soften the entry into ripe pu-erh.
Mandarin Pu-erh
Flavour words: citrus scent / earthy / rounded
Position on Joanne's progression: the second blended entry, at the same step as Lavender or one step beyond. Xinhui mandarin peel around Menghai ripe pu-erh — chen pi with ripe pu-erh, a Chinese household pairing for generations.
"Sweet Stock" Ripe Pu-erh Brick 2021
Flavour words: sweet / leafy / clean and smooth
Position on Joanne's progression: the simple pure ripe step. Huang pian (mature leaves) from 60+ year old trees in Xigui, Yunnan. Not a complicated tea — sweet, leafy, steady, and easy to drink every day. The most affordable way to taste pure ripe pu-erh from our range.
Ripe Pu-erh 2021
Flavour words: brown sugar / smooth / mellow-earthy
Position on Joanne's progression: the more layered step. Spring-picked loose-leaf Menghai ripe — more delicate than Sweet Stock, rewards attention.
"The One" Ripe Pu-erh Cake 2024
Flavour words: rich / earthy / juicy
Position on Joanne's progression: the deepest cup in the pack. Includes ancient-tree leaves pressed into a 200g cake — woody, structured mouthfeel that fills the cup. This 5g sample lets you try the cake format before deciding if a full 200g cake belongs in your tea shelf.
What you'll learn
Drink these five as a curated walk through ripe pu-erh, in Joanne's order. Compare blended vs pure through the two blended entries (Lavender, Mandarin) and the three pure ripes that follow (Sweet Stock, Ripe 2021, The One). Compare daily drinker vs more layered through Sweet Stock against Ripe 2021 and The One Cake. Compare loose vs compressed through Ripe 2021 (loose) against Sweet Stock (pressed brick) and The One (pressed cake). By the end, you'll know where your palate settles: at the floral blended entry, at the citrus blended entry, on the simple daily drinker, in the spring-picked layers, or at the deepest cup in the pack.
Caffeine
Two of the five are low caffeine (Lavender and Sweet Stock — fine for evening cups). The other three (Mandarin, Ripe 2021, The One Cake) are medium — best from morning to afternoon. If you're caffeine-sensitive, try the medium teas earlier in the day first.
Next steps
After the pack, browse the Pu-erh Tea Collection for full sizes. For the plain-English overview, read What is pu-erh tea? A beginner's guide. For the core style split, read Raw vs Ripe Guide.
How to brew
Detailed brewing card included with the pack — Western and Gongfu brewing for each tea.
Value: $43 retail, sold at $36.
About A Moment of Tea
Visit Our Hobart Tea Bar: Find us at Salamanca Art Centre where we've been sharing tea culture since 2022.
Tea Experience: Joanne has spent over 10 years learning tea traditions - from Chinese gongfu brewing in Beijing to Japanese matcha ceremonies here in Hobart.
Local Recognition: Featured in The Mercury, ABC, SBS Chinese, and Tasmanian community publications for bringing authentic tea culture to our community.
Carefully Selected Teas & Teaware: We select Chinese, Japanese and Tasmanian teas, plus teaware that we personally use and enjoy.
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from 134 reviewsI love smokiness in most things so when I saw this Lapsang Souchong Original Smoked I grabbed a sample to try and I was blown away.
From the moment you open the packet the aroma of the smokiness hits front and centre.
With smallish leaves I eagerly brewed up. I was presented with a beautiful full amber liquid and the smoke hitting my nose was welcoming.
The only way I can describe this tea is it brings back memories of camping down by the creek on our farm burning pine cones. It’s like a warm hug being able to taste the smell. It reminds me of the smokiness in your clothes once you walk away from that fire.
Full bodied and lovely mouth feel.
I want to write this because I am genuinely impressed with the service I received.
I had an issue with one of the teas I purchased and I emailed A Moment of Tea about it. That morning I received a email back from Zachary profusely apologising about the mishap. In the email Zachary thanked me for the email because they actually found an issue in the OS supplier and worked towards a solution with them that day.
Zachary took the time to explain to me the process as to how this tea was produced and why the issue occurred and what’s happening to fix the issue.
To say the least I was blown away and again would like to thank Zachary for the communication through email. I highly highly recommend anyone with a Chinese Tea love to purchase from here as the teas I have tried so far are top notch. Tea reviews coming.
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