2025 'Snake Oil' Raw Puerh Tea
For lovers of bold, powerful, and unrepentant raw puerh teas, ‘Snake Oil’ is viscous and vicious.
This raw puerh is comprised of a blend of high-end, old-tree tea material from some incredible pockets of forest across Menghai. We designed ‘Snake Oil’ with a focus on multidimensional, rich bitterness and an uncompromisingly thick body. When brewed, this tea releases a punchy, sugary-sweet fragrance that’s followed by a potent dose of mouth-coating bitterness and astringency.
Successive infusions will release a long-lasting impression of sweetness (回甘 huígān) in the mouth that builds in intensity and longevity with each re-steep. Tread carefully as this is not a raw that’ll play nicely if you’re prone to tapping out of a brewing session early, and there's absolutely no mercy if you drink this on an empty stomach.
'Snake Oil’ is the tea to reach for when you need high octane fuel and a volume knob that goes to 11. Get a lot of stuff done or get nothing done at all, it’s all a part of the plan. You’ve been warned, there’s no anti-venom.
Grab a cake and get a taste of your own medicine.
Wrapper artwork by ERODUCTIONS.
Pictures by Pingle Pictures.
2025 tea material produced in Yunnan, China.
200g per compressed cake, with 5 cakes per traditionally wrapped bamboo tong. 25g samples are cut or broken from the cakes and sealed into bags.
All orders are shipped from our HQ in Melbourne within 1-2 business days, using Australia Post.
Australia: $9.95 AUD flat-rate standard shipping, free above $75 AUD. $14.95 AUD flat-rate express shipping, free above $100 AUD.
New Zealand: $20 AUD flat-rate, free above $90 AUD.
Asia: $25 AUD flat-rate, free above $150 AUD.
Europe: $35 AUD flat-rate, free above $150 AUD.
Canada: $30 CAD flat-rate, free above $130 CAD.
United States of America: Tiered pricing based on order weight, with a choice of either Standard, or Express with Signature. Tariffs are calculated automatically and collected at checkout.
Use boiling water (100C).
We recommend using approx 1g of tea per 15ml of water for gongfu-style brewing in a teapot or gaiwan. Rinse the leaves once and then brew as usual. You can re-steep the leaves several times until there's no flavour left.
For Western-style brewing in a larger teapot, use approx 5g tea per 100ml of water. You can re-brew the leaves a few times.
To brew direct in a mug, use 1-2g of tea in the bottom of the cup, fill to top with boiling water, and drink once cool. Re-fill the cup with more water when you've drunk 1/3rd of the tea. Repeat until there's no more flavour left.
All of our teas are suitable for long-term storage and ageing.
Keep your tea away from sunlight and strong smells, and somewhere with stable climate conditions.
You can keep it sealed inside the re-usable bag the tea comes in, or another non-porous container.