Dongshan and Baihe: coffee, lotus, hot springs
Three crops and one weekend, on the warmest coffee slopes on the island.
A weekend shape
Coffee in the morning, lotus fields at noon, mud springs by four. Nothing is more than thirty minutes from anything else.
The harvest starts in October, which makes late autumn the only time all three are worth the trip at once.
Dongshan is where you take someone who says they do not like coffee.
What to expect from the cup
Low altitude and warm nights give a rounder, sweeter profile than the mountains — less acidity, more body, and a shorter finish.
It is the easiest Taiwanese coffee to like and the hardest to write about.
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