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Sipdown, 221. I can’t believe this one doesn’t have more tasting notes! I suppose it is pretty new but there are very few thoughts on this one posted here. I decided to go ahead and use my sample in my gongfu pot.

My first dong ding oolong was a somewhat untraditional one that was completely unroasted, which I really enjoyed. After that I had a few others that had the more traditional roasty notes in them. I almost didn’t order a sample of this one because of that, but it didn’t specifically mention any roasty notes, so I picked it up anyway. The dry leaf on this one smells light and green at first, but upon being warmed a bit a savory note comes out. I initially saved my rinse and tasted it, but this one was pretty light on flavor so I ended up skipping it. The post-steeping, under-the-lid sniff did yield lot of roasted scents.

The leaves did a fair amount of unfurling in the first, 5-second steep. The liquor smells vegetal and a tad savory-roasty. It reminds me of a savory noodle bowl almost. The flavor is pretty similar. There is almost a miso-like quality to this tea, including the greens that float in the miso soup. The promised “pound cake” notes never materialized, but then again I never really expected them to. To me, it is primarily vegetal, savory, and definitely miso-y. This tea is pleasant, but really just not my thing. I’m glad I got a sample though, because I would have been forever curious otherwise!

Kashyap

dong ding/tung ting – frozen summit oolong is one of my personal favorites and I always have this on hand…I was enjoying this particular one this weekend as a cold brew (one of my favorite ways to enjoy it after the first steep, much like gyokuro) and I think my brewing vessel had a gingering ginger hint to it as I couldn’t find this in the tea itself…back to the labe

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Kashyap

dong ding/tung ting – frozen summit oolong is one of my personal favorites and I always have this on hand…I was enjoying this particular one this weekend as a cold brew (one of my favorite ways to enjoy it after the first steep, much like gyokuro) and I think my brewing vessel had a gingering ginger hint to it as I couldn’t find this in the tea itself…back to the labe

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