Heavy Roast Spring Gui Fei

This rare Tieguanyin offers a deeply roasted profile with notes of coffee and coconut. Hints of burnt sugar and agarwood emerge with a rich, sweet finish and a smooth, full body. It leans roasted, sweet and woody.

Water around 85–95 °C (185–205 °F). In a mug, steep 3–4 min. For gongfu, use 5–7 g per 100 ml, 10–30 s steeps (8–15 rounds). You'll get to see how the flavor changes across multiple rounds. Heavier roasts can take boiling water no problem.

Grown in Fujian, China from the Tieguanyin cultivar. This batch is from the Spring 2018 harvest. The leaves got a heavy roast after picking.

Starts at $41.00 from Bana Tea Company, or about $0.82/g. A 50g package gets you around 8 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $4.92 per session. Explore more oolong teas on Teadar.