Eco-Cha Tea Club

Batch 122 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a Qi Lai Shan High Mountain Black Tea from northern Nantou County, Taiwan. For the full background story of this tea, check our sourcing blogpost. This batch of tea is a lovely melding of several aspects of Taiwan specialty tea. It is a high mountain tea from a lesser known region located just south of Li Shan. It is product of cooperative sustainable and innovative methods that just began last year. And it was made using hybrid techniques combining Black Tea and Oolong tea processing methods.

Batch 122 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a Qi Lai Shan High Mountain Black Tea from Nantou County, Taiwan. Qi Lai Shan is the name of a mountain, and has become a designated tea growing area, just south of the Li Shan tea growing region. This plot of tea is at 1400m elevation in the same valley as Lushan Hotsprings. It is owned and managed by the indigenous farmers in the area, who just last year started cooperating with our source of Eco-Farmed Four Seasons Black Tea and Oolong Tea, as well as our Red Jade Black Tea.

Batch 121 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a Lishan High Mountain Oolong Tea, harvested in early August. This second flush of Qing Xin Oolong strain grown at 2000m elevation represents the "gao leng", (which loosely translates as "alpine") style of tea from the northern borders of Taiwan's High Mountain Tea growing regions.

Batch 121 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a Li Shan High Mountain Oolong Tea from fall 2025 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. 

Batch 120 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is an Aged Oolong Tea from Lugu, Taiwan. Learn more about the background story of this tea in our sourcing blog. We procured these tea leaves in the spring of 2013. Due to a combination of circumstances, these leaves were allowed to age for 12 years, and we decided to celebrate our 10th anniversary of the Eco-Cha Tea Club with this batch of Aged Oolong Tea.

Batch 120 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is an Aged Oolong Tea from Lugu, Taiwan. These tea leaves were harvested in spring 2013 from a newly planted plot of Ying Xiang (Tai Cha #20) hybrid cultivar. This plot of tea was planted two years prior, when this new cultivar was not yet available on the market. It had just been registered by the TRES and was offered to this pioneer tea farmer as a trial crop, so we were told some 12 years ago. We had tasted the inaugural harvest from the previous winter harvest and loved it, so we put our dibs in for some of the following spring harvest.

Batch 119 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is an Wuyi Tie Guan Yin Oolong Tea from Muzha, Taiwan. It was made in the traditional fashion by our ongoing source of Tie Guan Yin Oolong Tea. We can see in the photo above that the leaves were rolled like they were 40-50 years ago in Taiwan, before mass production and more extensive use of machines. This more loosely rolled leaf material is more conducive to roasting as well as post production oxidation.

Batch 119 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is an Wuyi Tie Guan Oolong from Muzha, Taiwan. It was made from the first flush of a small plot of the Wuyi cultivar, and processed in the traditional Muzha Tie Guan Yin fashion by our ongoing source of Tie Guan Yin Oolong Tea. This is the second opportunity we've had to procure his Tie Guan Yin Tea made from the Wuyi cultivar. This spring 2025 batch of Wuyi Tie Guan Yin Oolong Tea amounted to less than 20 kg of cured leaf. 

Batch 118 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a First Pick Li Shan High Mountain Oolong Tea from spring 2025. The saplings of Qing Xin cultivar were planted in early spring 2023, and have grown quite well. Tea farmers and merchants in general concur in their acknowledgement that the initial harvest is special in its composition. The trees are sprouting forth new leaves with the vigor of youth and striving to survive.

Batch 118 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a First Pick Li Shan High Mountain Oolong Tea, from spring 2025 harvest. Shown above is the plot of tea that was planted over two years ago. This mountain slope had been farmed, and then left to grow wild again for nearly 30 years. Our source of Li Shan High Mountain Oolong Tea leased the land, cleared it again, and planted a new plot of Qing Xin Oolong tea plants. Taking care not to stress out their development, they waited until the last day of spring harvest to pluck the new growth from these young trees for the first time since the saplings were planted two years prior.

Batch 117 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is an Eco-Farmed GABA Oolong Tea that was hand-picked and processed in June 2025. Our in store Eco-Farmed GABA Oolong Tea is the machine harvested version of this tea. Our source has been making a singular batch of hand-picked GABA tea annually for several years, which we have shared with the tea club as batches 32, 74, 90, and 106.

Batch 117 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a hand-picked batch of Eco-Farmed GABA Oolong Tea from Songboling, Taiwan. The above photo is from the Nantou Global Tea Expo, where organic tea farmers are serving their teas. This is the son of the family we have been sourcing from for more than 10 years, and who have become our ongoing source of GABA Oolong Tea.