Eco-Cha Tea Club
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!
Lalashan High Mountain Oolong Tea | Eco-Cha Tea Club
Batch 103 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a Lalashan High Mountain Oolong Tea — spring 2024 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.
High Mountain Hong Oolong Tea Tasting Notes 2024 | Eco-Cha Tea Club
Hong Oolong is a relatively new thing on the tea scene. It began being promoted on the southeast coast of Taiwan in 2008, and has been increasingly well received in the last decade or so. This has resulted in other tea growing regions producing this type of tea. We feel like the combination of this tea garden that from which these leaves come, and the cooperation of Lugu and Sun Moon Lake tea makers in the processing offer a special batch of tea.
Early Spring Bi Luo Chun Green Tea 2024 Tasting Notes | Eco-Cha Tea Club
Batch 101 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is an early spring Bi Luo Chun Green Tea that is actually the very first batch of the year that was produced from our ongoing source in the Sanxia District of New Taipei, Taiwan.
Early Spring Bi Luo Chun Green Tea 2024 | Eco-Cha Tea Club
Batch 101 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is an early spring Bi Luo Chun Green Tea that was harvested on February 25, 2024. The video clip below shows Bi Luo Chun Tea leaves after tumble heating and being gently rolled. Here they are resting and cooling off, before going through the conveyer belt dryer.
Light Roast High Mountain Oolong Tea Tasting Notes | Eco-Cha Tea Club
Batch 100 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a Light Roast High Mountain Oolong Tea from the Shan Lin Xi high mountain tea growing region, fall 2023 harvest. It was a good harvest overall in the Shan Lin Xi region, and this batch really spoke to our tea mentor Lisa Lin, who ended up buying the whole day's harvest!
Traditional Lugu Oolong Tea Tasting Notes | Eco-Cha Tea Club
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.
Traditional Lugu Oolong Tea | Eco-Cha Tea Club
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.
Qi Yun #23 Black Tea Tasting Notes | Eco-Cha Tea Club
Batch 98 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a Black Tea made from a new cultivar by the name of Qi Yun #23. It's Chinese name is derived from the place name of its origin in Qi Men, An Hui Province, China. The second word "yun" refers to its distinctive aftertaste. And it is in the finish that this brew stands apart. It has a pronounced orange citrus note that is akin to bergamot. So the leaves of the Qi Yun strain brew a naturally bergamot-like character of tea!
Qi Yun #23 Black Tea | Eco-Cha Tea Club
Batch 98 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a Qi Yun #23 Black Tea. It is a new strain of tea on the scene that was introduced by Taiwan's Tea Research and Extension Station (TRES) about five years ago. The cultivation of this new strain dates back to 1938, when a Japanese professor brought tea seeds from Qi Men in An Hui Province, China to cultivate in Taiwan. This research was continued by the TRES, which finally produced this new cultivar in the last decade.
Award-Winning Tie Guan Yin Oolong Tea Tasting Notes | Eco-Cha Tea Club
Batch 97 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is an award-winning Tie Guan Yin Oolong Tea from Taiwan. It received 3rd Place Category Prize (top 18%) in the spring 2023 Muzha Farmers' Association tea competition. We were fortunate enough to procure the remainder of this batch of tea, and we purposely allowed it to rest and mellow until now to share it with the tea club.