KUURA 2025 ‘Caesura’ Raw Pu’er Tea

Softer says: on a price per gram to pleasure ratio, you cannot go wrong with KUURA’s “affordable” raws. The art & name on this are a beautiful nod to 2023’s Parataxis (another literary device) so we expect it to fall in the same realm: if you like a mid-body sheng pu'er with a round texture and fine bitterness (present but not too punchy) this will likely be a great daily drinker. Can’t wait to taste.


KUURA’S NOTES:

The latest evolution of our annual 'affordable flagship' raw puerh tea is a continually refined blend of excellent quality base material. Designed to highlight the enduring appeal of Yunnan’s unique tea forests, 'Caesura’ has plenty of power upfront with a fruity fragrance, rich mouthfeel, and lingering sweet aftertaste (回甘 huígān) that'll intensify over multiple re-steeps.

This raw puerh has a richly herbaceous fragrance that’s similar to 2023 ‘Macroscope’ Raw Puerh Tea but with an almost spicy, mineral edge. When brewed, this tea offers a rich herbal fragrance, thick body, and enough upfront oily bitterness to set the scene for a throat-coating, aniseed-like huigan in the aftertaste.

Comprised of spring material from ecological forest plantings of young tea trees across Xishuangbanna, ‘Caesura’ has plenty to offer whether you choose to drink it now or keep it for long-term ageing. We’ve many years of experience with the materials used in this blend; if you can hold off drinking it for now in preference for long-term ageing, you’ll be rewarded with an aged raw puerh that brews luxuriously thick, with a deep camphor-like aroma, and complex bittersweet flavour reminiscent of leatherwood honey.

Wrapper artwork by ERODUCTONS.
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 broken from the cakes and sealed into bags by Softer in Victoria, BC, Canada.