Medium Roast Spring Traditional Roasted Dong Ding

This exquisite Dong Ding offers a warm and inviting character with prominent notes of baked stone fruit and roasted hazelnuts. Its smooth body carries a hint of caramel sweetness, unfolding into a com. It leans baked fruit, nutty and caramel.

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 2024 harvest. The leaves got a medium roast after picking.

Starts at $8.43 from Nannuoshan, or about $0.97/g. A 6g package gets you around 1 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $5.82 per session. Explore more oolong teas on Teadar.