Eco-Cha Tea Club
Tie Guan Yin Oolong Tea Tasting Notes | Eco-Cha Tea Club
Batch 109 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a Tie Guan Yin Oolong Tea from Muzha, Taiwan. Last December we began our ninth year of the tea club with this traditional type of Oolong Tea, and we decided to offer a spring 2024 batch of this tea to kick off year ten. We choose to offer a Muzha Tie Guan Yin Oolong Tea at this time of year because it is a rich, bold, heavy roast Oolong that is particularly satisfying in the cold winter months. Its hearty, complex roasted flavor profile has a warming effect that soothes and satisfies.
Tie Guan Yin Oolong Tea | Eco-Cha Tea Club
Batch 109 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a Tie Guan Yin Oolong spring 2024 harvest from Muzha, Taiwan. The photo above was taken on one our first visits to our source of Tie Guan Yin Oolong Tea many years ago. We have continuously sourced our TGY from this artisan, and have become friends in the process.
Award-Winning Dong Ding Oolong Tea 2024 Tasting Notes | Eco-Cha Tea Club
Batch 108 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is an Award-Winning Dong Ding Oolong Tea that was entered in Taiwan's Lugu Farmers' Association spring 2024 competition and achieved Third Place Category award. This puts it in the top 16% of 4,776 overall entries. We chose this particular batch not only because it achieved an award in Taiwan's most prestigious Oolong Tea competition. More so because it offers a more traditional flavor profile of Dong Ding Oolong Tea, while still being within the competition standard.
Award-Winning Dong Ding Oolong Tea 2024 | Eco-Cha Tea Club
Batch 108 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is an Award-Winning Dong Ding Oolong Tea. This batch achieved Third Place Category in Taiwan's Lugu Farmers' Association Dong Ding Oolong Tea Competition, spring 2024. Our source of this tea also won Champion Prize in this same competition, comprised of over 4,700 overall entries. Nearly half of all entries are disqualified, and the remaining entries are ranked into several award categories and packaged in the certified farmers' association packaging.
Li Shan High Mountain Oolong Tea Tasting Notes | Eco-Cha Tea Club
Batch 107 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a fall 2024 harvest of Li Shan High Mountain Oolong Tea. Each time we've brewed these leaves, we've noted that the maturity of the leaf material at the time of harvest was ideal. We continue to experience how important this factor is in producing a premium quality high mountain tea. If the leaves are too young, they are small and tender and much more sensitive. They are more susceptible to being relatively bitter. If the leaves are too mature, they are more fibrous and less "juicy", producing a less substantial and complex brew.
Li Shan High Mountain Oolong Tea | Eco-Cha Tea Club
Batch 107 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a Li Shan High Mountain Oolong Tea from fall 2024 harvest. The Eco-Cha Tea Club is mostly about finding unusually distinct batches of tea that are not generally available on the market, with the goal of continually offering a different character of tea from month to month. Furthermore, we want to offer Taiwan's renowned specialty teas that are the best of their kind — in the world. Li Shan High Mountain Oolong Tea is a prime example. The farm in the photo above is where our Li Shan tea is produced.
Eco-Farmed GABA Oolong Tea Tasting Notes 2024 | Eco-Cha Tea Club
Batch 106 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is an Eco-Farmed GABA Oolong Tea, hand-picked in July of this year. We tasted it a couple weeks after it was made, and immediately asked if we could procure enough for our tea club. It was a very small batch, and we got first dibs! Learn more about the story of this tea in our sourcing blog.
Eco-Farmed GABA Oolong Tea | Eco-Cha Tea Club
Batch 106 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is an Eco-Farmed GABA Oolong Tea, harvested in July. We coined the term Eco-Farmed to designate teas that are sourced from a certified organic tea farm, without representing the organic certifications. This family of farmers implements the most natural farming methods we've seen in the local tea industry here in Taiwan.
Award-Winning Alishan High Mountain Oolong Tea Tasting Notes | Eco-Cha Tea Club
Batch 105 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a spring 2024 Award-Winning Alishan High Mountain Oolong Tea from Taiwan. Read about where this tea comes from in the sourcing blogpost. The Alishan Farmers' Association has established a quality standard that is distinctly sets it apart from the standard High Mountain Tea in Taiwan. It is a flavor profile that results from significant, but still light oxidation of the leaves as they are being cured, and a mild post-production roasting.
Award-Winning Alishan High Mountain Oolong Tea | Eco-Cha Tea Club
Batch 105 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a spring 2024 Award-Winning Alishan High Mountain Oolong Tea. This batch of tea was entered into the Alishan Farmers' Association Qing Xin Oolong competition and ranked within the top 36% of all entries. Our source who entered it was not totally satisfied with this ranking, and felt it should have achieved a higher award. He was tentatively planning on removing the tea from its award-winning packaging and storing it to enter into the next competition, for which he would need to pay the entry feed a second time. That's where we seized the opportunity to buy the batch in full and offer it to the tea club!
Competition Grade Wenshan Baozhong Tea Spring 2024 Tasting Notes| Eco-Cha Tea Club
Batch 104 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a competition grade Wenshan Baozhong, spring 2024 harvest. Check our sourcing blogpost for the background story of this batch of tea. Wenshan is the name of a district in the greater Taipei area in northern Taiwan, and Baozhong is the historical name of the tea type, which refers to the way it was wrapped in paper since the 19th century and up until the modern tea industry developed in the 1970's.
Competition Grade Wenshan Baozhong Tea Spring 2024 | Eco-Cha Tea Club
Batch 104 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a competition grade Wenshan Baozhong, spring 2024 harvest. Our source prepared this tea for competition, and then decided to enter other batches instead that offered a more delicate profile that he determined to be closer to the competition quality standard. We have learned over the years that we clearly are more inclined to choose the batches with a more substantial, full-bodied profile. The competition standard is oriented toward subtle, pure qualities. Both have their attributes, and the differences among daily batches of tea from the same source are really only evident when tasting them side by side.