Heavy Roast Spring Heavily Roasted Dong Ding

This dark roasted Dong Ding Oolong from Zhushan offers a comforting embrace of caramelized sugars and toasted nuts. Expect a rich, warming cup with notes of baked fruits and a smooth, satisfying finis. It leans caramel, roasted and fruity.

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 Nantou, Taiwan from the Qing Xin Oolong cultivar. This batch is from the Spring 2023 harvest. The leaves got a heavy roast after picking.

Starts at $6.23 from Nannuoshan, or about $0.70/g. A 6g package gets you around 1 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $4.20 per session. Explore more oolong teas on Teadar.