Eco-Cha Tea Club
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.
Lalashan High Mountain Oolong Tea Tasting Notes | Eco-Cha Tea Club
These fully matured but still supple and tender leaves brew a vibrant, fresh herbal flavor profile with a substantial, yet soft floral finish. The tea has a soft, smooth mouthfeel with little or no astringency. It offers a buttery, savory character with a fresh, soothing floral bouquet in the aftertaste. The oxidation level was the lightest out of the 5 days of harvest from the same farm that we tasted — offering the freshest, most aromatic profile.
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.
High Mountain Hong Oolong Tea | Eco-Cha Tea Club
Batch 103 of the Eco-Cha Tea Club is a High Mountain Hong Oolong Tea from the Shan Lin Xi High Mountain Tea Growing region, harvested in fall 2023. Shown above is the farm from which these leaves were harvested. It's a very remote plot of tea that is allowed to grow naturally between spring and winter harvests. So the fall crop is produced without any pesticides or fertilizers, and the tea trees are almost covered in weed growth.
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.