Eco-Cha Tea Club

Batch 131 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is an Award Winning Tie Guan Yin Oolong Tea from spring 2026 harvest. We share a batch of Tie Guan Yin Oolong almost every year, as it is represents the local tea making tradition of the Wenshan district in Taipei, Taiwan. It is perhaps the smallest tea producing region on the island of Taiwan, and the local population of tea artisans is dwindling year after year. This is truly a shame, as it is one of our favorite tea types. 

Batch 131 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is an Award Winning Tie Guan Yin Oolong Tea from spring 2026 harvest. In addition to procuring our in store batch for 2026, we procured this batch that was entered into competition at the Muzha Farmers' Association and achieved an award. We appreciated this batch for its balanced yet complex profile. It's a relatively smooth, mellow character of TGY that checks all the boxes of making it represent.

Batch 130 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a Li Shan High Mountain Oolong Tea, fall 2026 harvest. Following the spring harvest, the leaves were allowed to grow naturally — without being pruned. The leaves that were too immature to be picked at spring harvest continued to grow and nourish the trees, along with new growth following the spring harvest. We are under the impression that this farm practice of letting the trees grow naturally during the summer season can produce a crop that has its own character. 

Batch 130 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a  Li Shan High Mountain Oolong Tea harvested on August 13, 2026. This tea garden was given the terroir name Black Pine Forest —after the original growth forest surrounding it at 2100m elevation. It's situated above the aboriginal community of Xin Jia Yang at the 74K marker along the Central Cross-Island Route 8.

Batch 129 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is an Alishan GABA Oolong Tea from Meishan Township, Taiwan. We are inspired to share this batch of GABA OolongTea simply because it's probably the most exemplary GABA Oolong Tea that we've tasted. We've enjoyed some very special GABA Teas over the last decade. This edition of GABA Oolong Tea has a more representative character from a standard Oolong Tea perspective.

Batch 129 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is an Alishan GABA Oolong Tea, spring 2026 harvest at 1200m elevation in Meishan Township, Taiwan. The guy at the center of the photo above is a master tea roaster and renowned merchant in the industry here. Several years ago, he began cooperating with his source of Alishan High Mountain Oolong Tea to learn how to make a high quality GABA Oolong Tea.

Batch 128 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is an Award Winning Wenshan Baozhong Tea from Pinglin, Taiwan. This tea is from our ongoing source, and when possible, we like to offer a competition grade example of Wenshan Baozhong Tea to the tea club to represent this classic tea from Taiwan. Wenshan Baozhong has a history tea production in northern Taiwan dating back to the mid-1800's.

Batch 128 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is an Award-Winning Wenshan Baozhong Spring Tea 2026 harvest in Pinglin, Taiwan. It was entered into the Pinglin Farmers' Association spring competition and achieved "Excellence Award" which means that it ranked within the top 55% of 1825 entries overall. The photo above shows only a fraction of the awards that our ongoing source of this tea has won in the local competitions over the years. The photo in the lower center is his father with the first elected president of Taiwan Lee Deng Hui in the 1990's. 

Batch 127 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a La La Shan High Mountain Oolong Tea spring 2026 harvest. For the background story on this tea check our sourcing blogpost. This spring batch of tea is a satisfying balance of floral, and fruity and pastry qualities that keep you raising your cup for as long as the tea is being poured!

Batch 127 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a Lalashan High Mountain Oolong Tea — spring 2026 harvest. Lalashan is Taiwan's northernmost high mountain tea growing region, located in the Fuxing District of the greater Taoyuan area. It is a remote mountainous region mostly populated by indigenous Taiwanese. Bamboo, fruit and tea farms are scattered throughout these mountains, with a few tourist attractions along the way.

Batch 126 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is an early spring Alishan Jin Xuan Tea from Taiwan. It was harvested on March 27 in Tai Xing Village of Meishan Township. Check our sourcing blog for more detailed info on its origin. There are two complementary reasons why we chose this batch of tea for the tea club.

Batch 126 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is an Early Spring Alishan Jin Xuan Oolong Tea from Meishan Township, Taiwan. When we visited our friend and tea source on April 1, 2026, he mentioned that he just procured an Alishan Jin Xuan Tea that he was quite satisfied with. We were immediately quite interested! It had just been picked a few days before, on March 27, and would be the first spring pick at mid-elevation that we would taste. He promptly brewed it, and upon smelling and tasting the first brew, we asked if we could purchase some of it.