Da Yu Ling
大禹嶺
Oolong
This is the highest tea Taiwan grows, and the state is taking it back.
When crews cut the cross-island highway through the pass in the late 1950s the work was so hard that a president named the ridge after Yu the Great, who tamed the floods in the old stories. Gardens followed the road up to two thousand five hundred metres, higher than tea had ever been planted here.
Since 2015 the top gardens have been returned to forest, and the harvest is about a tenth of what it was. Very little of it leaves Taiwan. It coats the whole mouth like butter, orchid over something cold and green.
- floral
- buttery
- alpine
- Origin
- Da Yu Ling, Taiwan
- Water
- 95°C / 203°F
- Ratio
- 4.5 g / 100 ml
- Caffeine
- Medium
- Rinse
- Not needed
Taiwan high-mountain canon (highest zone)
How much leaf
Gong fu brewing is leaf-heavy and short. Set your gaiwan or pot size and this is what to weigh out.
Vessel volume
100 ml
Recommended dose
Use ~4.5g of tea
The session
6 infusions, about 7m 10s of total contact time.
- Steep 150sButter coats the first warm sip.
- Steep 245sOrchid rises through the cream.
- Steep 355sA cool vegetal note steadies it.
- Steep 41m 10sSweetness swells, thick and slow.
- Steep 51m 30sThe buttery weight holds on.
- Steep 62mA returning sweetness climbs back.
Also sold as
Dayuling, Da Yu Ling Oolong
In Czech and Slovak shops
Da Yu Ling
Steaper times this session for you
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Get notified at launchThese numbers are a median of independent gong fu sources, not a law. Leaf age, vessel and water all move them. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.