Heavy Roast Spring Heavily Roasted Dong Ding

This heavily roasted Dongding Oolong delivers a distinct smoky profile with an incredibly smooth, velvety mouthfeel. It offers a warming sweetness that lingers on the palate, creating a deeply satisfy. It leans smoky, velvety and sweet.

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 2025 harvest. The leaves got a heavy roast after picking.

Starts at $10.13 from UNITEA, or about $0.20/g. A 50g package gets you around 8 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $1.20 per session. Explore more oolong teas on Teadar.