Heavy Roast Autumn Bamboo Dove

This white from China offers a distinctive drinking experience. This unique white tea offers a complex character, balancing a natural sweetness and smooth texture with the warming intensity of an open flame roast. Hints of aromatic bamboo intertwine with the tea's. It sits in the "Sweet" and "Roasted" and "Woody" flavor families, so expect a cup that leans sweet and roasted and woody.

Aim for water around 75–85 °C (167–185 °F). Western style: steep for 3–5 minutes in a mug or teapot. Gongfu style: use 4–5 g per 100 ml, 20–40 s infusions for multiple short steeps — this way you can taste how the flavor evolves. White tea is forgiving. If you overshoot the steep time a little, it rarely turns bitter.

This white is grown in China. This particular batch comes from the Autumn 2017 harvest. After picking, the leaves received a heavy roast, which shapes the final flavor.

Prices start at $9.50 through white2tea — that works out to about $0.19 per gram. A 50g package gives you roughly 8 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which puts each session at around $1.14. You can compare prices across all vendors carrying this tea on the Teadar product page.