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. 

Batch 99 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a Traditional Lugu Oolong Tea made from a winter 2023 harvest of Qing Xin Oolong leaf material grown at 700m elevation in Yonglong Village of Lugu Township, Taiwan. The slightly mature winter flush was processed more traditionally in that it underwent ample solar withering in the initial stage and extensive tumbling at the end of the withering process in order to induce  a more thorough degree of oxidation. The leaves also underwent sufficient primary rolling after being tumble heated to cease the oxidation process. 

Batch 99 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a Traditional Lugu Oolong Tea from Yonglong Village in the Lugu Township, Taiwan. The Fenghuang/Yonglong community is along a ridge that runs adjacent to Dong Ding Mountain. This community is home to the densest population of artisan Oolong Tea makers on the island, and is considered to be the heart of traditional Oolong Tea culture in Taiwan. Shown above are father and son from a family of tea farmers. This month's batch of tea was harvested from this plot along with another small plot that were initially planted on their family land decades ago.

Batch 87 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a Dong Ding Tie Guan Yin Oolong Tea made from spring 2022 harvest in Yonglong Village, Lugu Township, Taiwan. This is the fourth time we are sharing this type of tea over the seven plus years of the tea club. We first offered it in December 2015, and a second time in January 2018. These two batches were made by the patriarch of the Su Clan, and that January 2018 batch was the last batch of tea we procured from this local legend of a tea maker. Batch 77 was made by his nephew, as is this current batch. We've  known and learned about tea from the Su Family for a decade now. 

Batch 79 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a Roasted Shan Lin Xi High Mountain Oolong Tea. As explained in the sourcing post, this batch is the roasted version of Eco-Cha's winter 2021 stock of Shan Lin Xi High Mountain Oolong. We were inspired to dedicate our reserve stock of Shan Lin Xi winter tea to the the Tea Club, upon learning that our friend achieved Top Category Award in the world's largest and most prestigious Oolong Tea competition! So we asked him to roast our stock just how he roasted his competition tea — which increased its value about 5 times of the original unroasted version!