Damn, I love a high mountain Dong Ding, don't you? This tea just goes and goes, grows bigger in the pot, with a strong floral Osmanthus series of notes that are high-lighted, then muted as steeps progress.
Can anything be more fun than playing around with 7-12 steeps of 7 grams of a good Dong Ding?
Last few steeps I picked a few Jasmine flowers off the bush that covers my side yard and tossed them in the cha hai. NOT the pot, of course, I don't want a lingering of Jasmine in the pot but the cha hai was fine, as it's glass and I can wash away all traces of the sin of adding the flowers to my tea!
This Dong Ding is a sample from Teavivre which I've had forever, I am only now uncovering a bunch of samples I still need to 'hit', and this one is certainly not a disappointment. I like Teavivre, they were a good place to start as a newbie for samples of many new things as well as my first Yixing pot and Yixing cha hai to match. (which of course, I hardly ever use, glass is certainly preferred).
Damn good Dong Ding, my friends. Now off to play Undertale while sitting in the sunshiny day of yet another perfect California morning. Life is hard!